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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Doug Coupland

Life

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Doug Coupland

Time

Lonely

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Doug Coupland

Business

World

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Doug Coupland

Needs

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

Doug Coupland

Parents

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Doug Coupland

Food

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Doug Coupland

Dream

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Doug Coupland

Want

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Doug Coupland

Family

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.