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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEEmpathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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