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" I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. "
Douglas Coupland
Society
Enough
Me
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" I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. "
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" I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road. "
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" 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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" I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. "
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" The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. "
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" I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. "
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" If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy. "
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" The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. "
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" I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. "
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You
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" The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature. "
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