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When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia.

— Mother Teresa

A broken loaf of bread beside a tipped tin cup and a red pepper on a dusty blue surface.
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The speaker describes anger at waste alongside disapproval of that anger. Mentioning what she has seen in Ethiopia explains why she finds the reaction hard to avoid, without describing those experiences here. The tension lies between an immediate feeling and her judgment of it.

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