Atul Gawande Quotes
The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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Persistence is a secret weapon for everyone.
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Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.
