"A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it"

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Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.46, Usborne Publishing Ltd

Edith Pattou

#White Quotes #Hawks Quotes #Deer Quotes

“I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.”
“Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.”
“I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'”
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Sep 17, 2016
“I'm definitely a guy that's done a lot of stupid s--- too. It happens.”
“Love liberates; it doesn't bind.”
“The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this day nobody can clearly understand. So, for me, this title is not the most important thing. You can go down in history as the father of democracy, but you can also go down as the person who brought about chaos just by stepping down.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.”

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