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Quotes of the Day for 7 April 2005 - World Health Day

Today is World Health Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization on this day since 1950. (WHO was founded on this day in 1948.) This year's focus is on the health of mothers and children. I do hope the day finds you well.

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
     - George Barrell Cheever

Now the trumpet summons us again- not as a call to arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
     - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961

Grandma was a kind of first-aid station, or a Red Cross nurse, who took up where the battle ended, accepting us and our little sobbing sins, gathering the whole of us into her lap, restoring us to health and confidence by her amazing faith in life and in a mortal's strength to meet it.
     - Lillian Smith

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
     - Mother Teresa, 1910 - 1997

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
     - Benjamin McLane Spock, 1905 - 1998

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