Margaret Chan Quotes
Health systems are social institutions. They do far more for society than deliver babies and pills, like a post office delivering parcels. Properly managed and adequately financed, a fair and equitable health system contributes to social cohesion and stability.Margaret Chan
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
Zachary Quinto -
Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
Gary Locke -
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
Babasaheb -
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
N. Scott Momaday -
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
Wendell Willkie
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
Ian McShane -
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
Ian Somerhalder -
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 -
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Victor Hugo -
I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
Natalie Imbruglia -
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith -
It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
Patch Adams -
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton -
We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
Gary Neville -
Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
J. B. Pritzker
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More than anything, you have to respect the game and do things the right way.
Asdrubal Cabrera -
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.
John Ralston Saul -
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.
Walid Muallem -
When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.
Tana French -
the possibility of war is real and very disturbing.
Jack Straw -
Health systems are social institutions. They do far more for society than deliver babies and pills, like a post office delivering parcels. Properly managed and adequately financed, a fair and equitable health system contributes to social cohesion and stability.
Margaret Chan