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" Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. "

Melissa Etheridge

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" Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers. "

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" When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body. "

Melissa Etheridge

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

" While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. "

" In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims. "

" The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. "

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" Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction. "

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" These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements. "

" When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering. "

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" Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern. "

" The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages. "

" In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side. "

Melissa Etheridge

" The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. "

" I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance. "

" The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. "

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" Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all. "

" Whole Foods has a good health care plan. "

" 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. "

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" I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.' "

Melissa Etheridge

" Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship. "

" The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. "

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" True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life. "

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