If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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