"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."
-Doug Coupland
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"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.“
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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
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"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."
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"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."
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