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In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

— Abraham Verghese The Covenant of Water (2023)

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"A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth."

Cutting for Stone (2009)

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

Cutting for Stone (2009)

And that is how he passed from this life to the next, without fanfare, with characteristic simplicity, fearless, opening his eyes that last time to make sure we were fine before he went on.

Cutting for Stone (2009)

Maybe it was written on my face that I'd become aware of human complexity - that's a kinder word than "deceit".

Cutting for Stone (2009)

All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me?

Cutting for Stone (2009)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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