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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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