A Quote by Douglas Coupland

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

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Nate Parker

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George Combe

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Mignon McLaughlin

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

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Junot Diaz

Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.

Kristin Armstrong

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

David Oyelowo

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Jeff Sessions

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Chris Harris

It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.

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