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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Abraham Verghese

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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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