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 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Geography is destiny.
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