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No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.
Walter Willett
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The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets
To rise, ascend, and culminate above
Eternity's horizon evermore.
Abraham Coles
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Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.
James Orbinski
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Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.
Janusz Korczak
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It is one thing to build an educational tower in the air at your library table, and another to face its actual appearance under the existing circumstances.
Abraham Jacobi
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Plutarch says that the life of a Vestal virgin was divided into three portions; in the first of which she learned the duties of her profession, in the second she practiced them, and in the third she taught them to others. This is no bad model for the life of a physician.
William Heberden
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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man — he must view the man in his world.
Harvey Cushing
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As an adult she had her organs removed one by one. Now she is a mere shell with symptoms where her organs used to be.
William Osler Abbott
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When the patient dies the kidneys may go to the pathologist, but while he lives the urine is ours. It can provide us day by day, month by month, and year by year, with a serial story of the major events going on within the kidney.
Thomas Addis
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To see the Convulsions, Agonies and Tortures of a poor Fellow-Creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify Luxury, and scratch callous and rank Organs, must require a rocky Heart, and a great Degree of Cruelty and Ferocity.
George Cheyne (physician)
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While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.
Gabor Maté (physician)
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Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.
Joseph Warren
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In science there are collectors, classifiers, compulsory tidiers-up and permanent contesters, detectives, some artists and many artisans, there are poet-scientists and philosophers and even a few mystics.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
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Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine.
Vasant Lad
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The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.
Clifford Allbutt
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Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic.
Franz Hartmann
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The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good.
Edgar Berman
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Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
Robert Atkins (nutritionist)
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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
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Samuel George Morton
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The relations in which a physician stands to his patients, to his brethren, and to the public, are complicated, and multifarious; involving much knowledge of human nature, and extensive moral duties.
Thomas Percival
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Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.
Robert J. White
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It is my honor to serve as President-elect Trump's Secretary of Veterans Affairs, President-elect Trump's commitment to caring for our veterans is unquestionable, and he is eager to support the best practices for care and provide our Veterans Affairs' teams with the resources they need to improve health outcomes. We are both eager to begin reforming the areas in our Veterans Affairs system that need critical attention, and do it in a swift, thoughtful and responsible way.
David Shulkin
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There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.
John E. Sarno
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Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
Robert James Graves
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