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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. -- R. D. Laing
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children -- Amartya Sen
Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. -- Brian Skerry
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. -- Kimberly Williams-Paisley
NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000! -- Samuel Epstein
They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease. -- James Young
Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. -- Lois Capps
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. -- Michael Marmot
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course. -- William S. Burroughs
Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate. -- William Davis
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68. -- Willard Scott
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer, -- Henry Ford
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness -- Robert McNamara
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. -- Dr. Seuss
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. -- Alcee Hastings
Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men. -- Margaret Chan
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. -- Esther Duflo
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous. -- Gary Ross

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