Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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