The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

- William Osler

Compassion

"To study medicine without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study medicine only from books is not to go to sea at all."

- William Osler

Learning

"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."

- William Osler

Leadership

"It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has."

- William Osler

Insight

"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies and satisfy your widest ambition."

- William Osler

Focus

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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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"The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better."

- Robert F. Kennedy

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"The best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."

- Wallace Wattles

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"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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"A veces sentimos que lo que hacemos es tan solo una gota en el mar, pero el mar sería menos si le faltara una gota."

- Mother Teresa

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