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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available…
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But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader…
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My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change…
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Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'.…
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A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
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Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home ,…
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Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were…
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the…
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...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but…
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.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available…
— Katherine Boo
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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond…
— Robert Southey
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a…
— Dalai Lama
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
— Robert Browning
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it…
— Dalai Lama
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,…
— Menno Simons
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not…
— Dalai Lama
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the…
— John Flavel
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