"The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit."

-- Deborah Butterfield

#Healthy Quotes #Disease Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.”

Source : SIDNEY M. JOURARD (1968). “DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF”
“I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.”
“We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.”
“You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.”
“It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.”
“Weâ€™re all children of Kubrick, arenâ€™t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasnâ€™t done?”
“Itâ€™s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of whatâ€™s in it for â€˜me,â€™ but whatâ€™s in it for all of us?”
“I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.”

Source : Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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