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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
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Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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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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