C. Everett Koop Quotes

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• A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people…
• There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional…
• Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk…
• Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years…
• I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids…
• If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd…
• If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't…
• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
• The best prescription is knowledge.
• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
• The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather…
• Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.
• They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or…
• You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
• One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a…
• That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped…

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