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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

Mother Teresa

1971

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Isolation Loneliness

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1971

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Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa. Quoted in Do Something Beautiful for God, written by Malcolm Muggeridge. Harper Collins, 1971.

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