Tom Frieden quotes

“Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.”
-- Tom Frieden

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“Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.”
-- Tom Frieden

Source : "CDC Telebriefing: Potentially Preventable Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death". www.cdc.gov. May 01, 2014.

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“It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.”
-- Tom Frieden

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“The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined.”
-- Tom Frieden

Source : "CDC: ‘Window Is Closing’ on Containing Ebola" by Abby Haglage, www.thedailybeast.com. September 2, 2014.

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“I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.”
-- Tom Frieden

Source : CDC Telebriefing in West Africa, www.cdc.gov. September 2, 2014.

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“The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here.”
-- Tom Frieden

Source : "CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the United States". CDC Press Conference, www.cdc.gov. September 30, 2014.

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“Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola”
-- Tom Frieden

Source : "CDC update on Dallas Ebola Response". www.cdc.gov. October 12, 2014.

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“It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
-- Tom Frieden

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“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.

“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”

“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

“There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)”

“Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.”

Source : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press

“The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

“In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.”

“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”