No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESELife for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Geography is destiny.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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