The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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