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I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
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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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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
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I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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