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

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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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

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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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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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

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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.

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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

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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 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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You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

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