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TUESDAY, 28 OCTOBER 1986
Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch.
Quiet budgeting is going anyway, checking your balance in the car and moving retirement to 79.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Disrupt the industry. The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for…
- A tidy playroom lasts exactly as long as it takes to photograph. The photo…
- Work smarter, not harder. You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- You said "that's so me" about a horoscope. It also described 600 million other…
- Lessons will be learned. By whom, and when, will also be learned. Eventually. Possibly.
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