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" Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "

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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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" The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? "

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" Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain. "

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" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "

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