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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Abraham Verghese

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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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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Action Know Omission Turn Whether World
I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Believer Destiny Follow Geography Great Update
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Backward Forward Inspire Life Live Understand
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
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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Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way
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
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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Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Anthropologist Baptism Inauhrating President Ritual Transformation Use
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
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
Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Cynicism Empathy Lesson Real Replaced
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

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