“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
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“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
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“Elizabeth Blackwell, “with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value,” found herself in the “unknown world” of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor—the first American woman to have become a doctor.”
― The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
― The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
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