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“It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.”

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... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in…

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Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.

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Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol…

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The environment can actually affect gene expression.

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The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

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It's not just that people with no education have worse health. People with a bit of education at somewhat better, with a lot of…

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In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree or a…

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For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less…

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If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't work it…

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I came from a warm Jewish family.

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The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in the conditions…

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If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on…

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When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

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Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

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I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And…

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The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

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In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

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I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and…

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The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

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We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly…

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People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

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