Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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I'm like a sight gag.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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She was poison in a pretty bottle.
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I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.
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I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
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Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
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Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
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My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed.
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We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.
