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" I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. "

Douglas Coupland

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" I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. "

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