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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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