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Florence Nightingale has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly…
— Barack Obama
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I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in…
— Stephen Fry
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...we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end…
— Unknown Author
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Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
— Florence Nightingale
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I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision.…
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and…
— Jan Brewer
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I will not stand idly by while you abrogate my plans! You shall rue this day!... Well, go on, start ruing! -Stewie
— Family Guy
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