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Geography is destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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Abraham Verghese
Age: 70
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Physician
University Teacher
Writer
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Geography
Destiny

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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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 I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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. 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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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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