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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

Abraham Verghese

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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. 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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Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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