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President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
  • Health
  • Animal

• I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Think
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  • Enjoy

• Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • You
  • Health
  • Mental Health

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
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• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Man
  • Health

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Love
  • America
  • Freedom

• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
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• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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• Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

  

  Nathan Deal
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  • Health

• We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Up
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• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Health
  • Player
  • Problems

• The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Health
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Health
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• 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.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Power
  • Society
  • Health

• In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can't otherwise reach healthcare facilities.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • World
  • Women
  • Health

• A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • People
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• Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • World
  • Death
  • Reality

• My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
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  • She
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• Let me say this: Camel is delicious, but when handled improperly, it's rank.

  

  Andrew Zimmern

• President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Health