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The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as t

The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as the Vegas of the Middle East or the Venice of the Middle East or the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert – have been built in the last ten years. – George Saunders

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When I was a kid, I took The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. – George Saunders

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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. – George Saunders

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I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders

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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. Its normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, its cool. – Zayn Malik

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Its cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home. – Anthea Turner

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Its cool to have critical success because its always nice for your peers to say, Good job. But who cares about them? – Zac Hanson

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I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. Its really cool. – Harold Perrineau

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Marilyn Monroe wasnt even her real name, Charles Manson isnt his real name, and now, Im taking that to be my real name. But whats real? You cant find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. – Marilyn Manson

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Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? – Martin Farquhar Tupper

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A mans worth is no greater than his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

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