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“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

“Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.”

“PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.”

Wells Science Hope Dog Humour Health Ill Physicians

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.”

Men Wells Long Made Dies Fun Health Paid Medicine Physicians Liable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.”

Knows Men Wells Pain Joy Night Pleasure Grief Mistake Brain Tears Inspire Health Ought Habit Sorrow Anxiety Laughter Mad Contrary Arise Dread Absent Sleeplessness Delirious Absent Mindedness

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. ... Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to Congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation.”

Wells States Law Subjects Objects Health Mass Direct Congress Granted Internals Description Commerce Legislation Components Quarantine Inspection Ferry

Book:The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall

Source: The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall

“Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.”

World Wells Stills Ability Moral Modern Health Activity Everyday Illness Absence Defined Well Being Dimensions Modern World Positively World Health

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.”

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Author:Karl Evang

“The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.”

Wells Risk Subjects Health Psychological Sustaining Psychological Health

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.”

Humans Wells States Body Pain Causes Black Blood Health Constitution Substance Proportion Yellow Quantity Human Body Constituents

Book:Hippocratic writings

Source: Hippocratic writings

“For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.”

People Ifs Feels Wells May Feelings Causes Enjoy Health Patient Ill Complaining Wellness Complaints Suspicious Relish

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.”

“Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you are with the nutrition of your body.”

Mind Wells Book Body Healing Health Careful Your Body Nutrition

Author:Robert Muller

“The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.”

Wells Whole Wisdom Healing Wise Health Disease Clever Ignorant Cures Physicians

Author:Plato