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Quote by Elizabeth Blackwell
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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respect
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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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Virtue
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The idea of winning a doctors degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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Graduation
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. – William Peter Blatty

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They say its better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. – Conor Oberst

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sad

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when Im done is write another one. Then I dont feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. – John Hughes

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Its a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race. – Oscar Robertson

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sad

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