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ABRAHAM VERGHESEBe careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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