Abraham Verghese Quotes

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

Abraham Verghese

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Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Robert Reich

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I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.

Robert Scoble

DoingYouI CanPrivacyKnowGoogle

It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn't happen very often.

Amy Bloom

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I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.

Steve Kazee

LifeLiveManMeThinkDemons

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

Roger Goodell

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My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Roger Moore

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When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

Rory Bremner

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Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

Lloyd Alexander

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

Jean de la Bruyere

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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

Donald Kagan

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There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

Archibald MacLeish

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I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Tiki Barber

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