Within the UK, it is common for graduates of non-nursing degrees (e.g., psychology) who are wishing to pursue a career in mental health (e.g., clinical psychology) to first start out working as healthcare and nursing assistants in mental health settings to gain relevant clinical experience.

Earth receives the seed and guards it,
  Trustfully it dies:
Then what teeming life rewards it,
  For self-sacrifice.
With green leaf and clustering blossom
  Clad, or golden fruit,
See it from earth’s cheerless bosom
  Ever sunward shoot.

[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_52/b3965024.htm "Microcredit Missionary" - A BusinessWeek Profile]

Wouldst thou the young year’s blossoms, and the fruits of its decline,
And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed;
Wouldst thou the Earth and Heaven itself in one sole name combine?
I name thee, O Shakuntala! and all at once is said.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

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William Powell — Nick Charles

My boy, he may not take you to court but would certainly take out your front teeth, with the blessings of the entire neighbourhood." Mr Batalvi bought a new blue colour Ford Cortina. On Aftab Gul's daring (so I still claim), I climbed on its roof to perform the 'twist' amidst loud clapping.

[http://www.iep.utm.edu/mozi/ "Mozi" in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

La autenticidad del sentimiento depende de la claridad de la idea.

And we're going, "Oh, Captain Clever! Whoa-ho-ho! Rattle it, and if it doesn't go off, it can't be a bomb!

[http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/ Article in The Idler Magazine] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718214232/http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang Internet Archive copy] instead

Like the poet Po Chüyi, the Chinese scholar "utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit.

El filósofo que adopta nociones científicas predeterminó sus conclusiones.

The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it. That such a modern work should have been written in the eleventh century is a miracle, and as a miracle the work is widely known abroad.

But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error. And so people said he had no respect for the gods of the clan. His enemies said that his good fortune had gone to his head.