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  • Jerome K. Jerome on health

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    “We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.” -Jerome K. Jerome

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  • Muhammad Iqbal on health

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    “The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.” -Muhammad Iqbal

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  • Emma Thompson on health

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    “I have had lots of friends who’ve been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able…

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  • Ashley Montagu on health

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    “The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.” -Ashley Montagu

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  • David Satcher on health

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    “I’m convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.” -David Satcher

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  • Jim DeMint on health

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    “Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.” -Jim DeMint

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  • John B. S. Haldane on health

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    “I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.” -John B. S. Haldane

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  • M. Scott Peck on health

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    “We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.” -M. Scott Peck

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  • Rick Perry on health

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    “We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.” -Rick Perry

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  • Dee Dee Myers on health

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    “Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration’s worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • Plautus on health

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    “He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.” -Plautus

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  • Iain Duncan Smith on health

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    “For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound – say through increased benefits – will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the…

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  • Nathan Deal on health

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    “For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.” -Nathan Deal

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  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on health

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    “The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do – get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make – I will be able to maintain my good health and…

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  • Paul Farmer on health

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    “Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.” -Paul Farmer

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  • Simon Mainwaring on health

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    “The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • Joan Jett on health

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    “Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.” -Joan Jett

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  • Karl Lagerfeld on health

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    “There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.” -Karl Lagerfeld

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  • Mark Dayton on health

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    “Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.” -Mark Dayton

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  • Adam Smith on health

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    “What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” -Adam Smith

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  • George Herbert on health

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    “Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.” -George Herbert

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  • Henri Frederic Amiel on health

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    “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” -Henri Frederic Amiel

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  • W. H. Auden on health

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    “Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.” -W. H. Auden

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  • Samuel Smiles on health

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    “Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” -Samuel Smiles

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  • Pat Robertson on health

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    “Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child’s background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.” -Pat Robertson

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