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“When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.”

Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

“The social and economic impact of the earthquake is still very present and is contributing to mental health problems, the mother who lost her husband, or children who lost their parents, and who now are responsible for the whole family, taking children to school and providing food. This transition is still causing stress and depression.”

“In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.”

Feels Reason Helping Social Sex Change Levels Health Couple Benefits Court Mental Health Climate Hearing Supreme Stability Introducing Supreme Court Health Benefits

Author:Rick Wright

“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

“To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.”

Wells Social Religious Moral Virtue Health Duty Exercise Bases Preserves

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”

Whole Science Certain Culture Social Support Health Type Development Healthy Tradition Accounts Function Structure Application Integrated Social Structure

Author:Talcott Parsons

“The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.”

Wells Would Be Care Choices Winning Social Results Liberty Environment Security Health Republican Health Care Corporate Accountability Senate Social Security Civil Liberties

Author:Barbra Streisand

“On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.”

“For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation”

“We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.”

“Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.”

“Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.”

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Author:Patch Adams

“It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.”

“Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.”

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Author:Bill Drayton

“Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.”

People Wells Social Health Resources Capacity Program Dignity Investment Feds Expenditures Social Programs

Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”

Social Interest Worst Health Ill Vested Interests Anti Social Ill Health

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”

Men Social Pleasure Objects Health Fame Conscience Expenses Fruition

Book:Coningsby: Or, The New Generation

Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation

“Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.”

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Author:Pierre Bosquet

“Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.”

“... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.”

Social Chance Acting Environment Influence Childhood Effects Health Circumstances Disease Adults Rate Height Mortality Adulthood Social Environment

Author:Michael Marmot

“General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.”

Fall Social Class Health Rate Improvement Inequality Mortality Decline Social Inequality

Author:Michael Marmot

“We tend to seek greatness in our thinking, thus excellence walsk right past those solutions to our most pressing problems, those most relevant and most near. Like a man walking past a beggar, sure in his belief that he has no time. Vicinity of foundations are mighty important.”

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Author:Monaristw

“We tend to seek greatness in our thinking, thus excellence walk right past those solutions to our most pressing problems, those most relevant and most near. Like a man walking past a beggar, sure in his belief that he has no time. Vicinity of foundations are mighty important.”

Philosophy Social Poverty Environment Crime Health Suicide Pollution Priority Structures

Author:Monaristw

“Social media is your friend when OSHA does not work for you.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Life is hard without compassion for yourself.”

Life Hard Care Social Compassion Society Health Mental Yourself Without

Author:Steven Magee

“Am I insane or a genius?”

Mind Social Brain Society Identity Health Genius Insane Mental Dilemma

Author:Steven Magee

“Embrace your differences.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am reliably unreliable.”

Self Time Social Work Psychology Society Health Mental Unreliable Reliability

Author:Steven Magee