Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind."
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!"
Aristotle Onassis
Shipping magnate
"To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big."
Ovid
Poet
"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."
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"If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales."
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"Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers."
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"I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes."
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"The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods."
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"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."
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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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"O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse."
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"It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature."
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"Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient."
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"It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die."
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"A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife."
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"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food"
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"Difficulty is the nurse of greatness."
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"Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
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"Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests."
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"In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning."
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"And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse."
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"The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter."
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"after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer."
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"The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book."
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