Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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