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Doug Coupland

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Motivasi

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.

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Waktu

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

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Kehidupan

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

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Kepemimpinan

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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Waktu

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

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Sukses

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

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Sukses

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.

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Kehidupan

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

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Doa

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

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Waktu

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

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Waktu

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

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Keberanian

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

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Kehidupan

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

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Kehidupan

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

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Motivasi

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

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Pendidikan

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

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Kreativitas

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

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Sukses

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

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Kegagalan

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

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Kegagalan

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

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