Abraham Verghese Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Judging Quotes

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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

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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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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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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

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

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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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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

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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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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

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