"The result was I went nowhere."

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Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.38, Penguin

Pat Barker

#Results Quotes

“I am in the present and only the present matters to me”
“Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.”
“Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?”
“First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.”
“If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.”

Source : David Suzuki, David Taylor (2009). “The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet”, p.204, Greystone Books
“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.”
“Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror”
“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”

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