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We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It’s a question of time, not motive.

Bharati Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
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Farmers Farming Modesty
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.
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Battles Criticisms Mother Overall Toppel
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
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Children Mind Poetry
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one’s individuality.
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Individuality Mind Roots
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
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Inattention India Real
I’m sorry, this is too much work, I’m going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.’
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Better Pay Sorry Work
My first novel, ‘The Tiger’s Daughter,’ embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man’s land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
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Country Daughter Mother
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
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Citizens Government Mean
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where
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Cities Country Iowa
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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Duty Inspire Teacher Teaching
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns.
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Childhood Mother Two
She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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Probably Runs Unvoiced Young
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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Feels Home Traveler
Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless.
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Mother Taken Winning
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.
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Captivity Four Years
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It’s a question of time, not motive.
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Motive Time

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It’s a question of time, not motive.

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We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It’s a question of time, not motive.

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