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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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

— Doug Coupland

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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#chinese #covered #crude #crude oil #ducks

In our heads we're all about 33 years old. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ↗

— Norman Cousins

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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself. ↗

— David Coverdale

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If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything. ↗

— David Coverdale

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