"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
-Clara Barton
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"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.“
-Clara Barton
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