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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Absence Because Books Film Film And Tv Form Precisely Reads Technologies Temporal Tourism Tv Watches Which

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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Alien Always Earth Felt Form Human Like Me Other Penance Permanent Reward Some State Still Time Trapped Unsure

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I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Appropriate Autistic Connect Disorder Elegance Elegant Ever Fashion Felt Form Honestly Like Must My Own Myself Never Other Own People Prefer Some Think Wonder I Wonder

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

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Before Entertainment Form Had Machines Only People Really Relationships

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I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Because Define Fill Form Get Get Married Got Half Life Look Makes Married Match Met My Life Now Online Out People Really Sense Things Think Two Two People Who Works You I Think

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As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Cafe Century Could Crumble Escapism Form Go Going Holiday Horrible Internet Like Local Only Practice Promising Sort Understandable Walk Without Would Yearning You Yourself 20Th Century

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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Change End End Of The World Form Gives Happening Hope Improvement Included Many Myself People Time Us World

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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

~Douglas Horton

Topics: Bliss Distraction Form Materialism Only True

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We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all kind, including the military. We all know this. Lets get on with it.

~Douglas R. Oberhelman

Topics: Cut Entitlement Fashion Form Get Going Including Kind Know Lets Military Raise Revenues Some Spending

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I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Any Around Bank Extra First Food For The People Form Hard Instead Know Last Life Money Needs Nothing Order Other People Provide Put Society Third Two-Thirds Up Utopian Value Working You

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