Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYour job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Geography is destiny.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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