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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Abraham Verghese

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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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