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THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2003
“I'm here for the right reasons.”
The reasons are a teeth-whitening deal and a fake tan.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- Youth is wasted on the young. You wasted yours too. Old age is next,…
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