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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.

Abraham Verghese

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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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