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By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition, and the next audition, and the next one.

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

Dreams without goals are just dreams, and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

The task of keeping the galley fire alight was both difficult and strenuous, and it took his thoughts away from the chances of immediate dissolution.

There are some men who will do more than their share of work and who will attempt more than they are physically able to accomplish.

The outlook was cheerless indeed, but much work had to be done and we could not yield to the desire to remain in the sleeping-bags.

The task now was to secure the safety of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental power and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me.

It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.