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[Chris Ryser]

"If you love somebody, let them go. ...............................

If they return, they were always yours. ..............................

If they don't, they never were."

Anon.






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"If you love somebody, let them go. ...............................

If they return, they were always yours. ..............................

If they don't, they never were."

Anon.






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If you love somebody, let them go. ...............................

If they return, they were always yours. ..............................

If they don't, hunt them down and kill them.

[Chris Ryser]

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare..........................................

Japanese Proverb





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[Chris Ryser]

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate.......................

because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell






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[Chris Ryser]

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words....................................

I you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Philip K. Dick






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[Chris Ryser]

"Money talks......................................

but all mine ever says is good-bye."

Anon.







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[Chris Ryser]

Your imagination, my dear fellow,....................................

is worth more than you imagine.

Louis Aragon








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[Chris Ryser]

To the world you might be one person,.......................................

but to one person you might be the world.

Anon.








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[Chris Ryser]

"Not life, but good life,.....................................

is to be chiefly valued."

Socrates









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[Chris Ryser]

The temporary good .........................................

is enemy to the permanent best.

Bill Wilson







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[Chris Ryser]

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, .........................................

but how we behave when we don't know what to do."

John Holt





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[Chris Ryser]

Forgiveness is love in its most noble form.

Anon.




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[Chris Ryser]

A good character is the best tombstone........................................

Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered..............................

Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon








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[Chris Ryser]

When I find myself in the company of scientists, ...................................

I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

W. H. Auden





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[Chris Ryser]

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences..........................................

No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Thomas Henry Huxley






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[Chris Ryser]

"Genius is one percent inspiration .......................................

and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Alva Edison









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[Chris Ryser]

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent;........................................

beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Sydney J. Harris







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[Chris Ryser]

There once was a sculptor called Phidias..........................

Who had a distaste for the hideous.

So he sculpt Aphrodite

Without any nightie

Which shocked the ultra-fastidious.

Anon.






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[Chris Ryser]

"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good......................................

Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."

Luigi Barzini, O America, 1977






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[Chris Ryser]

To make mistakes is human;............................

to stumble is commonplace;...................................

to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

William Arthur Ward

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[Chris Ryser]

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still,...............................

retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confession, 1981









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[Chris Ryser]

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past...........................

worry about the future, or anticipate troubles.........................

but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha






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[Chris Ryser]

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately.........................................

Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something......................................

They know that there is a power somewhere -- so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive -- ---------

that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913







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[Chris Ryser]

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on.......................................................

And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

P. J. O'Rourke






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[Chris Ryser]

There's so much plastic in this culture................................

that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Lily Tomlin







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