"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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Source : Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.

Edith Cavell

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“Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred”
“I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.”
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword”
“I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'”
“Chess is a cold bath for the mind”
“The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.”
“It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.”
“The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged....”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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