Clara Barton Quotes
Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.
 
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	During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.   
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	Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.   
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	The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.   
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	On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'   
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	Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.   
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	Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.   
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	Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.   
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	It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.   
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	I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.   
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	Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.   
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	In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.   
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	At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.   
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	The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.   
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	The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.   
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	Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.   
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	If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.   
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	Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.   
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	I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.   
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	If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.   
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	Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.   
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	Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.   
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	When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.   
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	Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.   
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	Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					