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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Bent Child Death Entirely Over Realized She Tragedy Unfulfilled
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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Backward Caught Forward Life Look Near Stop Understand Wheel
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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Another Gift Morning Sight Sunrise Wake
When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Currency Heart Lose Often Open Selfish Straighten Warped Winning
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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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
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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Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Begin Boo Club Discourse Living Meaningful Room Spread
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
Geography is destiny.
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Culture Destiny Geography Gift Offering Past Tradition Wisdom
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Average Healthcare Physicians
If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical School Student Undergo Year

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