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“There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.”

“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.”

“There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.”

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Author:Arlen Specter

“I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.”

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Author:Arlen Specter

“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.”

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Author:Arlen Specter

“If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.”

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Author:Lewis Black

“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”

“I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.”

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Author:Gloria Swanson

“My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.”

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Author:Kiana Tom

“People use so much more health care when they live longer.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”

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Author:Robert Urich

“Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.”

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

“I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.”

“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”

“One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.”

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Author:Allen West

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.”

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Author:Dean Karnazes

“True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.”

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Author:Charles Eisenstein

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”

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Author:Samuel Butler

“I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.”

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Author:John Waters

“It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.”

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Author:Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

“I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.”

“The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”

“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”

“Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

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Book:The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

Source: The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

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Author:Leigh Hunt

“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”

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Author:Ralph Marston

“Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”

“Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.”

“lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.”

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Author:Paul Farmer

“Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.”

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Author:William Osler

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

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Author:Ovid

“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health”

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Author:Dalton McGuinty

“In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.”

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Author:Brian Day

“When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.”

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.”

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Author:Chris Christie

“UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.”

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Author:Jane Curtin