"In America today, the percentage of children and……" — Lois Capps
"In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s."
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27 Quotes by Lois Capps
Lois Capps has 27 quotes on this site.
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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication…
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Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our…
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And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
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That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
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I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest…
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What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and…
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Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.
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As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the…
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Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in…
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Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not…
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I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge…
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More Adolescent Quotes
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one of 152 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Nicholas Rescher
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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