"We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change."

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Source : "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

Atul Gawande

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.”
“I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.”
“When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.”
“I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa.”
“Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.”
“I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.”
“There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”
“I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.”

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