The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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 angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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