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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
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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Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Currency Heart Lose Often Open Selfish Straighten Warped Winning
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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Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
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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Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished
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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Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Covered Earth Fault Man Money Surgeon
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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Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
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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Conscious Exact Moment Professor Teacher Trotting Year
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Even Fascinated Knowledge More Wisdom
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Dynamic Grew Ignorance Knowledge Proportion Same

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