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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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