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Florence Nightingale

"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts."

Source : Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Florence Nightingale

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“From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return.”
“I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.”

Source : Song: New Strings, Album: Kerosene, 2005
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“You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.”
“Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.”
“What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.”
“If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!”
“When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.”

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