“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

— Matka Tereza

As quoted by Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God http://books.google.com/books?id=irO7hAQLmsMC&q=&quot;The+biggest+disease+today+is+not+leprosy+or+tuberculosis+but+rather+the+feeling+of+being+unwanted&quot;&pg=PA73#v=onepage (1971) <br class="br">1970s

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Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910–1997

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