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 VERGHESEThis is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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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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