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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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