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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
– Josh Billings
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
– Franklin P. Adams
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
– Joseph Addison
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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
– Buzz Aldrin
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
– James Allen
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say.
– W. H. Auden
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
– Anacharsis
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I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
– Bob Barker
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Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
– Allen Boyd
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
– Edmund Burke
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To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
– Richard Baker
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
– Lord Chesterfield
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
– G. K. Chesterton
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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
– Michael Crapo
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
– Quentin Crisp
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
– Walter Cronkite
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
– George William Curtis
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
– Tryon Edwards
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
– Larry Elder
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The first wealth is health.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
– Epictetus
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Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.
– Dianne Feinstein
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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
– Marilyn Ferguson
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
– Gustave Flaubert
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The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
– Steve Forbes
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
– Bill Frist
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Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
– Russ Feingold
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
– Redd Foxx
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
– Billy Graham
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The body is a sacred garment.
– Martha Graham
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There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
– Christine Gregoire
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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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The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
– William Hall
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America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
– Tom Harkin
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Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.
– Tom Harkin
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
– Patrick Henry
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
– Hippocrates
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One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.
– Mike Huckabee
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The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.
– Mike Huckabee
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
– Henrik Ibsen
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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
– Holbrook Jackson
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Your body hears everything your mind says.
– Naomi Judd
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
– Chiang Kai-shek
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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
– Dennis Kucinich
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I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
– Steve Kerr
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Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?
– David Letterman
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Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
– Carl Levin
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A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
– Blanche Lincoln
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Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.
– Blanche Lincoln
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
– John Locke
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I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
– Spike Milligan
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Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.
– Patty Murray
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I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
– Pedro Martinez
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
– Ralph Nader
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
– John Nash
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Family, nature and health all go together.
– Olivia Newton-John
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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
– Robert Orben
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I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.
– Mike Piazza
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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Health consists with temperance alone.
– Alexander Pope
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
– Alexander Pope
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With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
– Prince Philip
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As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
– Bill Richardson
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For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
– Jean Paul Richter
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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
– William Temple
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Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.
– Thomas Vilsack
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
– Judith Viorst
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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.
– Denzel Washington
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
– Ron Wyden
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It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.
– Ron Wyden
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Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
– Ron Wyden
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The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.
– Heather Wilson
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
– Hippocrates
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
– George Dennison Prentice
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
– Albert Schweitzer
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You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.
– Max Baucus
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You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
– Courtney Thorne Smith
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You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.
– Eric Cantor
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You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.
– Corrine Brown
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You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.
– Mehmet Oz
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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
– Jeanne Moreau
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You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.
– Mehmet Oz
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
– Adam Clayton
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You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
– Paul Farmer
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You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
– Andrew Weil
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You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
– Peter Shilton
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You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.
– Mike Pence
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Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.
– Helen Reddy
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Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.
– Miranda Kerr
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Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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Yes, I do agree we need health care reform however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
– John Mica
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Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
– Thomas Frank
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