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"If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education."
"We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease."
"Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains."
"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
"Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat."
"In order to trust your body as a guide, the first step is to begin to understand it."
"Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more."
"Favour fresh, real food. You can be assured that you are offering your body anti-inflammatory nutrician."
"I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold."
"I mean, you've got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go."
"I had the constitution of a missionary."
"There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs."
"O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?"
"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."
"Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind."
"Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat."
"The best part of health is fine disposition"
"The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity."
"Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness."
"Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?"
