"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization,……" — Florence Nightingale
"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home."
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Florence Nightingale
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85 Quotes by Florence Nightingale
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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…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
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Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances…
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
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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…
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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…
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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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People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body,…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
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