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title: "3 Peter Dickens Quotes"
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# Peter Dickens

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Peter Gerald Charles Dickens was an English Royal Navy officer during World War II and a great-grandson of novelist Charles Dickens.

##  Quotes by Peter Dickens

> [Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-dickens/green-consumerism-generally-and-healthy-products-and-lifestyles-in/)

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> [People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-dickens/people-can-try-to-eat-the-correct-things-take-the-correct-amount-of/)

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> [For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-dickens/for-the-fact-is-that-organisms-are-creative-and-make-their/)

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