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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 15 JANUARY 1961
Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort.
Mostly explaining it at parties to people backing away.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
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- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Every birthday is a gift. The gift is one fewer birthday.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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