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Cynicism is humor in ill health. -- H. G. Wells
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. -- Samuel Richardson
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. -- Lionel Trilling
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill. -- Astro Teller
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. -- William Temple
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem. -- Ralph Merkle
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health. -- Michael Servetus
For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance. -- Ben Nelson
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. -- Warren Christopher
I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill. -- Andre Rieu
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. -- Frank Dobson
Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks. -- Charles Duhigg
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. -- Anne Perry
Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health. -- Dan Jenkins
I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed. -- Gary Johnson
Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill. -- Gail Collins
According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. -- Dianne Feinstein
Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed. -- Naomie Harris
The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. -- Donald Berwick
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier. -- Yogaswami
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves. -- Ernest Hemingway
Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out. -- Zafrullah Chowdhury
Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. -- Andrew Weil
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. -- Paul Bourget
Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. -- Lionel Trilling
Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities. -- Jamie Fellner
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. -- John Webster
Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion. -- Emmet Fox
When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself. -- Francisco Varela
A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed. -- Elias Canetti
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. -- Pamela Frankau
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind. -- Frederick Lenz
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind. -- Frederick Lenz
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! -- Thomas Carlyle
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. -- Yukio Mishima
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well." -- William Ewart Napier
American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress. -- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill. -- Michele Bachmann
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes". -- Joanna Russ
As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state when communication breaks down. We become ill when our waves are out of sync. -- Lynne McTaggart
Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long. -- Will Rogers
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer -- Lord Byron
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem. -- Ralph Merkle
The state of ill health is a moment to moment happening. Healing is moment to moment balance, bringing awareness to our thoughts, feelings and emotions and how we respond. -- Vasant Lad
Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. -- William Saroyan
Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.

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