"Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement."

-- Bharati Mukherjee

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“Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.”
“Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.”
“Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die”

Source : Song: Fantastic Voyage, Album: It Takes A Thief, 1994
“The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.”
“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .”
“The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of fiction comes out of a child's feeling of, "Hey, that's not fair."”
“I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.”
“Not enough is a spiritual state, not an economic one.”

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