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You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.


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We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.



You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.



It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.



Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.



We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.



I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!



You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.



I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.



Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.



If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.





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Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.



Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.



I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.



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I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.



I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.

I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.



And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.



People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.



Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.




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