"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture." ― Doug Coupland Topic(s): Experience Tags: school More From Doug Coupland "The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top." "What if God exists except it turns out he doesn’t really like people very much?" "Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking." More In Experience "If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."― Muriel Rukeyser "If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets."― Sachin Tendulkar "We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."― Jim Lehrer