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Doug Coupland

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Keluarga

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

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Pendidikan

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

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Keluarga

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

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Pendidikan

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

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Keberanian

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

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Kehidupan

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

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Humor

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

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Harapan

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

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Harapan

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

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Harapan

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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Harapan

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

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Harapan

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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Kebahagiaan

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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Doa

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

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Kebahagiaan

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

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Nasihat

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

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Sukses

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

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Cinta

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

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Pendidikan

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

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Sukses

People will always choose more money over more sex.

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