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[Chris Ryser]

"The only true wisdom is in knowing ................................







you know nothing."

-Socrates








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[Chris Ryser]

"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. ..........................






Everything might have turned out so differently."

-Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden






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[Chris Ryser]

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, .......................





but for the sake of defending those that do."

-William Blake







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[Chris Ryser]

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; ............................







yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

-Kahlil Gibran






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[Chris Ryser]

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. ............................................






Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

-Karl Kraus






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[Chris Ryser]

"In America only the successful writer is important, .......................


in France all writers are important, .............................


in England no writer is important, .................................







and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is."

-Geoffrey Cottrell








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[Chris Ryser]

"To do two things at once ......................................






is to do neither."

-Publilius Syrus





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[Chris Ryser]

"In the first place, God made idiots. ......................




That was for practice. ............................





Then he made school boards."

-Mark Twain





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[Chris Ryser]

"The grand essentials of happiness are: .........................


something to do, ......................



something to love, ........................


and something to hope for."

-Allan K. Chalmers




" You all have a happy New Year "





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[Mlindy]

Man who runs in front of car gets tired
Man who runs behind car gets exhausted

[Chris Ryser]

"If you tell the truth, .....................................







you don't have to remember anything."

-Mark Twain







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[chip anderson]

Chris: Are you sure this isn't a quote from Hillary Clinton?

[Chris Ryser]

"The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those ................................





who represent the established order that your ideas will upset."

-Anthony D'Angelo




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Chip,
That was Mark Twain about Hillaries Great Grandfather.

[Chris Ryser]

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. ..............................



Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. ..............................



All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

-George Bernard Shaw






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[Chris Ryser]

"It's not your blue blood, .........................


your pedigree or your college degree. ...........................






It's what you do with your life that counts."

-Millard Fuller





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[Chris Ryser]

"There are many ways of going forward, ..................................







but only one way of standing still."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt










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[Chris Ryser]

"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, .................................





but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."

-Anon.






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[Chris Ryser]

"Indecision is like a stepchild: ..................................



if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, ............................




if he does, he is wasting water."

-African Proverb









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[Chris Ryser]

"The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- .................................




then make money with money -- ...............................




then make lots of money with lots of money."

-Paul Erdman








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[Chris Ryser]

"Our character is what we do .................................








when we think no one is looking."

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.





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[Chris Ryser]

"Talk of joy: ................................



there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- .....................................




there may be."

-David Grayson, Adventures in Contentment, 1907









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[chip anderson]

Chris:

That was before the recipes for Black Beans an Rice or a host of other Cajun stuff.

Chip

[Chris Ryser]

"Bulls make money. ...................................





Bears make money. ..................................





Pigs get slaughtered."

-Anon.





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[Chris Ryser]

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, ........................................







but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.








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[Chris Ryser]

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. ..................................



Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves....................................




All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

-George Bernard Shaw