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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Air
Destroys
Forests
Fresh
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Doubts
Limit
Only
Our
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
Catch
Fast
He
Horse
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Because
Brief
Brief Moment
Change
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Force
Impact
Never
Permanently
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale
Among
Bed
English
Excited
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid
Accord
Encouraged
Even
Faster
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid
Any
Darkness
Every
Fair
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
Actions
Bring
Distilled
Feelings
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Florence Nightingale
Actually
Around
Color
Effect
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
Anything
Better
Discontented
Never
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
Any
Attribute
Excuse
Gave
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence Nightingale
Back
Death
Development
Every
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Florence Nightingale
Did
Form
God
His
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
Florence Nightingale
Ability
Been
Could
Done
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
Florence Nightingale
All The World
Before
Belief
Choose
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
Florence Nightingale
Because
Day
Early
Enough
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Become
Come
Contrary
Courtesy
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
Florence Nightingale
After
Cold
Disease
Faint
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale
Among
Elements
Good
Health
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Children
Done
Honest
Like
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
Florence Nightingale
Air
Badly
Certain
Constructed
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale
About
Any
Box
Came
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
Always
Children
Express
Invariably
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Always
Because
Before
Die
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Chamber
Common
First-Rate
Furniture
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Before
Carve
Clearly
Every
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Experience
Insight
Life
Moment
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
At Least One
Before
Begin
Born
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Begin
Grandiose
Man
Politics
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Always
Everything
Excuse
Had
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Disguise
Does
Exists
Hide
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Advice
Bad
Bad Example
Example
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Favors
Of
Further
Gratitude
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Complains
Everyone
His
Judgment
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Contains
Jealousy
Love
More
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Calculation
More
Often
Than
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Due
More
Our
Passions
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Bear
Enough
Misfortunes
Others
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Appear
Before
Disguised
Finally
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Advice
Anyone
Badly
Because
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Degree
Forgives
Loves
One
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Actions
Ashamed
Best
Could
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fool
Forever
Head
Heart
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Battle
Join
Man
More
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Becomes
Ceases
Certainty
Doubt
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Consequences
Done
Fear
Much
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
Hillary Clinton
Abortion
Access
Cannot
Contraception
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As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
Hillary Clinton
Condemned
Erase
Government
History
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Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
Hillary Clinton
American
Censor
Committed
Freedom
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