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Florence Nightingale

"We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."

-- Florence Nightingale

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“I will only add, God bless you.”
“That's Denver Beck, isn't it? Paul mentioned him. What's he like?" Ori asked. "Oh, where do I start? Beck's mouthy and he lives to tell me what to do." In short, he's so not you. "Why do you want to know?" A glimmer appeared in Ori's dark eyes. "Just scoping out the competition.”
“A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.”

Source : "A Century of Giving Back" by Queen Rania al Abdullah, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.
“'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I'm not, I'm 23. It's me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.”
“It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.46, BoD – Books on Demand
“My open workouts are like fight day. I've got a lot of pressure on me and I ride it to the top.”
“The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.”
“The demons wanted girls. Sugar and Spice and everything nice.”

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