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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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