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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
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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Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
Geography is destiny.
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Culture Destiny Geography Gift Offering Past Tradition Wisdom
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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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Ancient Apprentice Become Down Due Look Master Paid Ship
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Birth Broken Fixing Moment Occur Sometimes Wound
When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Disease Element Good Handling Healing Job Mean Physical Spiritual
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Believe Black Future Hoe Past Smack Universe
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
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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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
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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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking

The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

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