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> [“Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryant-simon/pretty-quickly-i-stopped-seeing-the-company-as-an-engine-of-community/)

[Bryant Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryant-simon/)

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> [“That was the trouble with life—it never quite fulfilled its promises.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-byars/that-was-the-trouble-with-life-it-never-quite-fulfilled-its-promises/)

[Betsy Byars](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-byars/)

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