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• Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

  John Milton

  Contemplation

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• Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Crazy, Doctors, Nhs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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  Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

  Florence Nightingale

  Our Lives, Finished

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• Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

  William S. Burroughs

  Doctors, Addiction, Disease

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.

  Stephen Marche

  Jobs, Men, Good Job

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

  John Piper

  Doctors, Medicine, Spoons

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Giving

  Tristia

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• I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Six, Escorting

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.51, Vintage

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• I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

  Ruth Graham

  Grief, Flower, Losing A Loved One

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• Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

  William Blake

  Desire, Criminal Mind, Cradle

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.

  Virginia Henderson

  Recovery, Unique, Sick

  Virginia Henderson (1991). “The Nature of Nursing: A Definition and Its Implications for Practice, Research, and Education : Reflections After 25 Years”, ABRAMS

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• White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

  Joan Mitchell

  Color, White, Horror

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• The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Nursing, Games

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

  George Thorogood

  Joy, Wonder, Born

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• Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference.

  Brittney Wilson

  Jobs, Mean, Nursing

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• For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Useless, May, Devotion

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.160

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• Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, War, Science

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Heart, Hands, Voice

  Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

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• We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Healing

  "Remembering 9/11: Howard Zinn on the "Old Way of Thinking" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. November 1, 2001.

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• It's been interesting that a diversity of roles have come my way, and that I've had the opportunity to do them. To me, it's about going for a good role that has something to say, and that's a challenge. I've been lucky enough to play everything from a homeless guy to this crazy male nurse.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Crazy, Opportunity, Play

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Flower, Voice, Office

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

  Nathan Deal

  Important, Care, Significant

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• I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

  Ann Richards

  Mother, Expectations, Being The Best

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• I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Girl, Baby, Would Be

  "Rebecca Romijn Gives Birth to Twin Girls". www.foxnews.com. January 5, 2009.

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• I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Jobs, Grieving, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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