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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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Ability Completely End Language Medical Partly Specialized Teach Third Year
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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