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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Doug Coupland
Fear
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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Life
Weather
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Doug Coupland
Life
Fate
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
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Ability
Deeds
World
Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
Doug Coupland
Body
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
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Day
Memories
Right
You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
Doug Coupland
People
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
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Dating
People
Financial
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
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People
Feeling
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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Creativity
Competence
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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Name
Quick
Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
Doug Coupland
People
Technology favors horrible people.
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Technology
People
Favors
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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Power
Failure
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
Doug Coupland
Life
Grave