A Quote by Margaret Atwood

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Canadian - Novelist
Born: November 18, 1939

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Tony Robbins

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Johan Rockstrom

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