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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Abraham Verghese

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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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