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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Abraham Verghese

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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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