Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Geography is destiny.
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