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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Cannot Communicate Knowledge
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Accept Affirmative Answer Call
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Beign Days Down Each
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Between Bliss Dividing Eternity
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We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

Barriers Down Forces Greed
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Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.

About Get Passionate Quality
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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Celebrate Communities Debate Differences
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Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

Citizen Ensure Every Integrity
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Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Against Either Every Finance
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Always Belief Better Better Life
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Alien Country Democracy Forget
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Abundance Add Enough Little
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Ability Civilization Cultivate Human
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Continuing Control Enough Government
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Air America Attacked Date
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Lost Rivers Sea Self-Interest
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

American Cycle Destiny Events
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Absence Acquainted Affliction Am
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Delay Everything Folly Hasten
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Empty Empty Stomach Failing Full
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Affection Enemy Self-Interest True
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Beautiful Crop Field Gives
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Fate Men Minds Only
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Everything Comes Gradually Appointed
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ability Ambition Appetite Assert
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Colleagues Fellow I Can Pick
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Allowing Authority Conflicting Force
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Achievement Arduous Attempt Difficult
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Cruel Does Fiber Free
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
First Harm Hospital May
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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.

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.

Accord Encouraged Even Faster
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Actions Bring Distilled Feelings
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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.

Anything Better Discontented Never
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Any Attribute Excuse Gave
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Be Careful Better Careful Day
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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.

Ability Been Could Done
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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.

Because Day Early Enough
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Discipline Far Gift God
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

About Any Box Came
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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.

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.

Chamber Common First-Rate Furniture
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Have the courage to act instead of react.

Act Courage Instead React
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Friendship Game Plays Pleasing
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