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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’

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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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