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" For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. "

Louise Slaughter

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" I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine. "

" The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health. "

" True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. "

" We have all these politicians that claim they're pro-life and that say women should not be able to get abortions and all this other stuff... there's nothing more pro-life than helping a woman who wants to have a child have a child. Then I realized that health insurance doesn't cover IVF. "

" A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world. "

" A lot of genetic testing hasn't been integrated into healthcare because it has been expensive. I want to make people realise that they have the ability to be in charge of their own health. "

" Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. "

" You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies. "

Malcolm Gladwell

" 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. "

" I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health. "

David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

" Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. "

" Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive. "

Robert M. Gates

" I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether. "

Abraham Verghese

" I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living. "

" After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health. "

" Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service. "

" If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. "

" Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. "

" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "

" If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. "

" It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off. "

" I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes! "

" 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. "

" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "

" I just have to be very clear. Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, it's purely a choice of mine for health. Not because I think that plus size, curvy, voluptuous, big bodies aren't attractive - because I think they're awesome and sexy. "

" I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves. "

Anthony Hopkins

" Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan. "

" There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians. "

" My goal is to stay in good health, and every day, I wake up and pray that I do. "