Daniel Kahikina Akaka famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Pain #Health #Suffering
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Cancer #Fighting #Animal
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Doors #Joy #Sound
I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#War #Believe #Past
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Believe #Responsibility #America
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Country #Cities #Disaster
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Essentials #Disease #Surveillance
It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Long #Decision #Pitfalls

The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
I don't look at myself as suffering.
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.
The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Daniel Kahikina Akaka famous quotes

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