Atul Gawande Quotes
You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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I like heels and make-up.
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There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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Plan ahead! Prepare dishes ahead of time if you can. Keep it simple. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy your guests.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
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You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.