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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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