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Ismail: You're Very Brave
Lillie: I was running away
Ismail: Why?
Lillie: I couldn't be what other people wanted me to be
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Lillie: I'll tell you the story of my journey. Where I went, how I got there, and what I saw along the way. I thought I was going to change the world. But, of course, it was the world that changed me.
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Jude: Eastern Anatolia is a rugged country. Its people are poor but hard-working. For them, modern medicine is a revolutionary concept. That is why the work of the American Mission Hospital in Van is so vitally important. For many peoplue in the region, our hospital offers the only medical care available. People come from hundreds of miles around. And the only reason we are able to provide for them is because of generous donations from open-hearted Christians like yourselves. There are impedements, of course. Eastern Anatolia can be a place of unspeakable violence and transgression. But it is also a place of fierce spirit. And the people who have survived there... When I first came to Van as a newly graduated doctor, my plan was to stay a year, do my service, and then come back to te States and open a properous practice. Well, that was eight years ago. I didn't intend for it to happen, but once I got to know these people and live among them, I knew I would never leave.
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Lillie: It's like being in God's thoughts.
Ismail: It appears our time inside God's thoughts has come to an end.
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Jude: I've been visiting hospitals in various cities, catching up on the latest advancements in modern medicine.
Lillie: It's true. Medical science has been making some amazing advances. If only we could advance the thinking of the doctors.
Mr. Rowe: Lillie...
Jude: How do you mean, miss?
Lillie: Yesterday, a man was turned away from the hospital where I work because his skin was the wrong colour.
Mrs. Rowe: Dr. Gresham, I have to aologise for our daughter.
Jude: I assure you, Miss Rowe, no one has ever been turned away from our hospital due to colour of their skin or their religious beliefs. That would be against everything we believe in.
Lillie: Dr. Gresham, I'd like to show you something.
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Melih Pasha: Let us be honest with each other. Your name and your charme have carried you this far. But now it's time for you to prove yourself.
Ismail: Allright.
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Ismail: You should'nt wander off.
Lillie: I'm perfectly fine. Is that Mount Ararat where Noah landed?
Ismail: Yes. We call it Agri Dagi.
Lillie: Agri Dagi.
Ismail: Noah and the Great Flood. Adam and Eve. You know, it's also part of the Islamic culture.
Lillie: Really?
Ismail: Hm-hm.
Lillie: Adam and Eve?
Ismail: Hm-hm. Only in the islamic telling they weren't driven out of the garden. They were placed in different parts of the world, so they had to search to find each other.
Ismail: Please stay close.
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Lillie: Wouldn't you like to break free?
Ismail: Freedom is an illusion. We... we all take the role we're given.
Lillie: I don't believe that. Do you?
Ismail: Less and less, evertime I see you.
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Woodruff: My government will hear about this.
Khalil Bey: The Russians are burning a path from the East and they'll be here soon. Let's see how you fare with them, Dr. Woodruff. They're savages. You Americans and Europeans whether you come here to help, or to fight, or to make a profit, you'll never be anything but insignificant.
Woodruff: We don't pretend to be anything else.
Khalil Bey: When your countries were still swamp and forests, culture had already lit up our lands for thousands of years. And you're nothing but history, collapsed into darkness like Rome, like Greece we'll still be here.
The Ottoman Lieutenant Quotes
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