"The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."

-- Stephen Gardiner

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“David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.”
“Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?”
“I'm an average, everyday girl.”

Source : "'Kick-Ass' Star Chloe Moretz Is One Of 10 To Watch In 2010". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. January 19, 2010.
“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.”
“Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.”
“The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.”
“Evil comes up softly like a flower.”

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