Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMake something beautiful of your life.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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