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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Abraham Verghese

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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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