Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESELife for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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 bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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