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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that…
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done…
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Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have…
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in…
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To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward…
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Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,…
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive…
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C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
— Jamie Zawinski
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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The…
— Robert Burns
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He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head…
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
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I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,…
— Michael Jackson
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My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding…
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