Edith Cavell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
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Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
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I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
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I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.
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Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.
-- Edith Cavell
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
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All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
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I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.
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I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
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I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
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