Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

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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.

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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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I use the word nursing for want of a better.

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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

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