Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEDon’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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