Abraham Verghese Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Years Quotes

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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Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

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I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Years Quotes , Self Quotes

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Years Quotes , Ivy Quotes

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , New Year Quotes , Years Quotes

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Years Quotes

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Moving Quotes , Years Quotes

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Humor Quotes , Years Quotes

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Years Quotes , Waiting Quotes

The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Years Quotes , Knowing Quotes

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

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Tags : A. R. Ammons Quotes , Years Quotes , Imagine Quotes

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Years Quotes