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" Not only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion. "

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" I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make. "

Stewart Butterfield

" In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

" Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities. "

" We need to modernize an outdated agency, bring it into the 21st century, and ensure that the VA is better equipped to treat the health and psychological issues that are unique to our veterans. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition. "

" Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system. "

" Healthy people live with their world. "

Anne Wilson Schaef

" Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later. "

Sheryl Sandberg

" As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?' "

" Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people. "

" It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested. "

" Science has improved public health, taken us to the moon, and allowed us to understand the origins of our universe. It also has given us the tools to solve problems now instead of reacting to them after it is too late. "

" To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. "

" We need to make sure that people get good adequate health care that's not necessarily tied to their insurance, that's not mandated, that's not taxed. "

" I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything. "

" Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable. "

" Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective. "

" If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast. "

" Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful. "

" Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. "

Joseph B. Wirthlin

" The young, the old, women, the disabled, the sick and the wounded are entitled to protection under international law. Too often, the ICRC's calls for those laws to be respected are ignored. "

" Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. "

" The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time. "

" Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations. "

" The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. "

Albert Einstein

" Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. "

" Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy. "

Mark Zuckerberg

" Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. "