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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.
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CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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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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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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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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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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