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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Abraham Verghese

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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