"People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems."

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Source : "Lawyers See Fat Payoffs in Junk Food Lawsuits" by Michael Y. Park, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2002.

David Satcher

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.”
“% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.”
“You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.”
“Belly buttons are cool!”
“Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.sbnation.com. October 13, 2010.
“While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.”
“There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.”
“Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.”

Source : Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.2

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