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• Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Food, Mean

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• The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

  Timothy Murphy

  Records, Paper, Rooms

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• I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

  Candice Bergen

  Home, Tears, Chloe

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• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Taken, Rooms, Enough

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• It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

  Lottie Moon

  Mistake, Land, Chinese

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• A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Appreciation, Block

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• As my guests leave even my most simple parties, I consistently hear the same thing: 'That was the best time I ever had,' and it's always me saying it. But I do know in my heart they all feel the same way, probably.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Heart, Simple

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• Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥

  Paulo Coelho

  Cooking, Life Is Like, Trying

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• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Literature, Want, Firsts

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.

  Margo Kaufman

  Differences, Long, House

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• We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Aunt, Littles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

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• We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliation- the daily tasks of life with other people. Stability in Christ is always stability in community

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Practice, Daily Tasks, People

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.19, Paraclete Press

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• Only a Europe that is conscious of its own values can be both an economically strong and a morally and intellectually respected partner, and thereby extend its hospitality to others. It's a cultural disgrace that we are forced to identify no-go areas for foreigners.

  Walter Kasper

  Strong, Europe, Conscious

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Boys, Names, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Doors, Countenance

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.170

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• My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Mother, Father, Heart

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House

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• Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

  O. Henry

  Country, Enemy, Way

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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• In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.

  Michael McCaul

  Sister, Mom, Brother

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• I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

  Willie Mays

  Hurt, Blessed, Body

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

  Art Garfunkel

  Soccer, Cheer, Years

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• As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

  Marlo Thomas

  Success, Children, Father

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• I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the scene could easily be in London, Paris, New York of LA. My eyes are burning, my knees hurt and I hate to say it, but a certain and vital part of my nether region is beginning to smell like peanut butter. Welcome to life on tour.

  Corey Taylor

  Hurt, New York, Hate

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• Being good is good business

  Anita Roddick

  Leadership, Business, Responsibility

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• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  Owen Hart

  Wrestling, Sometimes, Enjoy

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