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In many ways, human health is the great global connector. -- Kathleen Sebelius
The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health. -- John Clifford
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. -- Jeff Merkley
It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being. -- Stephen LaBerge
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. -- David Suzuki
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. -- Ivan Illich
During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make sure that what goes into toilets, industrial drains and street grates would not endanger human health. -- Charles Duhigg
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us. -- Mike Johanns
It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects. -- John Gurdon
I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident. -- Ann Veneman
I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. -- Craig Venter
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health. -- Ann Veneman
We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. -- Ann Veneman
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it. -- Ann Veneman
The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life. -- Chris Hadfield
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply. -- Ann Veneman
I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted. -- John Gurdon
Health is the greatest of human blessings. -- Hippocrates
Health is the core of human development -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Health is the core of human development. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased. -- Shirley Chisholm
We need human security: food, education, health care for our children. -- Mairead Corrigan
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. -- Gautama Buddha
Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right. -- Julio Frenk
health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress. -- Helen Keller
As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them. -- Louis Bromfield
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing -- Viktor E. Frankl
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. -- Richard Louv
If we begin to diligently care for the environment, it will greatly improve human health. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily irradiation of the human body by natural sunlight is an extremely important aspect of human health. -- Steven Magee
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global -- Marilynne Robinson
You can learn from your health challenge what is most important and become a better human being. -- Lee L Jampolsky
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. -- Hippocrates
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first. -- Dennis Kucinich
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? -- Paul Farmer
I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease. -- David Agus
First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't. -- T. Colin Campbell
The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time. -- Andrew Weil
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. -- Walter Rudolf Hess
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. -- Charles Kingsley
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. -- Nelson Mandela
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. -- Wendell Berry
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. -- Avicenna
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. -- Craig Wilson
The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans. -- David Green
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. -- Maude Barlow
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. -- Bernard Lown
The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman. -- Stewart Udall
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -- Albert Einstein
What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field. -- Bill Maris
I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose. -- Barton Seaver
We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health -- Colin Blakemore
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity. -- Salvatore J. Cordileone
I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore. -- Wayne White
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all. -- Albert Einstein
Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human. -- Benton MacKaye
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. -- Hippocrates
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition. -- Marian Wright Edelman
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for. -- Kofi Annan
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body. -- Teresa of Avila
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. -- Gelila Bekele
When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves. -- Bobby McLeod
The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number. -- Mitt Romney
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves. -- Anton Chekhov
Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right. -- Joseph Bernardin
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other. -- Michael Pollan
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them. -- Germaine Greer
By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm. -- John Gofman
When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light. -- Steven Magee
The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health. -- Paul Krugman
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand. -- Richard Louv

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