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

-- Abraham Verghese

#School Quotes #Years Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.”
“Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.”
“Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.”
“You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.”
“I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.”
“The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.”
“Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.”
“The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.”

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