Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Quote by Doug Coupland

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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by...

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by...

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get...

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get...

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

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

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state...

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state...

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't...

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't...

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

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

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world...

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world...

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do...

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do...

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

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

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and...

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and...

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that,...

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that,...

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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

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