How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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