Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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