"Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint."

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Source : "Pope Francis Canonizes Mother Teresa In Vatican Ceremony". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2016.

Rachel Martin

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“Actually it was easier than you'd think. We were the guys who had the opportunity to play for something. Only 26 players on the eight teams had that chance. We would wake up in the morning and have a reason to train. We are able to have four weeks to play at this level. Since the first day our policy was not to talk about the labor situation. Our goal was to win. We'll enjoy it for one night. Then the reality of the owners locking us out sets in.”
“Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.”
“By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.”
“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.”
“Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.”
“America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.”
“My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.
“This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.”

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