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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

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Make something beautiful of your life.

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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. 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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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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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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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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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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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

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