How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Geography is destiny.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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