What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Geography is destiny.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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