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Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Physician
University Teacher
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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. 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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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. I've had my share of angels.
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