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“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
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“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”
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“Reflection is a dangerous pastime. It can lead you to rewrite your past, alter how you see your present, and tempt you down paths you never imagined you would explore.”
― The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space
― The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space
“Be humbler about what [you] know, more confident about what's possible, and less afraid of things that don't matter.”
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“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.”
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
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