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• The uneventful day is a precious gift.

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• Everyone needed an obsession.

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• The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

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• When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact.

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• Life too is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

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• The uneventful day was a precious gift.

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• One operates in the now.

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

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• Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

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• Geography is destiny.

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• A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.

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

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

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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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• Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.

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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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• Make something beautiful of your life.

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• The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

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Abraham Verghese (22)

Birth:	1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Physician, Professor

About

Abraham Verghese is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He is also the author of three best-selling books, two memoirs and a novel. Verghese worked as an orderly for a year before going to India where he completed his medical studies at Madras Medical College in Madras, now Chennai. After finishing his medical degree from Madras University in 1979, and then completing his internship there, he came to the United States as one of hundreds of foreign medical graduates, or FMGs, from India seeking open residency positions.

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