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Which Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
- Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
- Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes…
- 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…
- A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face…
- No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century…
- If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during…
- I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
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