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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Show Up and Fail Again; You’ll Fail Better if You Do

An Italian, an Irishman, and a Jew thought they were walking into a bar when they were actually showing up for a bar mitzvah, as I finally take responsibility for my mistakes by learning from them

80% of success is physical
And the other half
Of success
Is failure

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Bigger and Better

I wasn’t shocked when scientists announced that a universe already infinitely… could still be expanding because I do have an ego
“Negative space may be used to depict a subject in a chosen medium by showing everything around the subject, but not the subject itself”

In the New Age everybody knows that everything happens for a reason but nobody knows the reason so, everybody pastes together
Tell It Like It Is

Jews will tell you Right up front That they believe They are the chosen people WASPs believe that they believe
Citizens Are to See But Are Not Here

Democracy was superseded not by a police state but by a witness protection progra…
To Change Your Life, Allow for Change, i.e. Allow for God

The only thing more threatening th… Is change So, the most courageous person is… Stands up in public and announces… What counts as change?
The Best Way to Fool Yourself Is to Feign Ignorance

Ignorance is bliss but playing dumb hollows out the abyss
Storytime Is Running Out

All forms of life have an unconsci… sentient animals have developed co… to extend the unconscious’ operati… and human beings have developed la… to make consciousness the unconsci…
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

People will only tell the truth when they think they can get away with it For example, perjury laws only wor… by publicly threatening jail time
Let There Be Night

You’ll never convince me that when the sun and moon are out at the same time it isn’t the sun appearing at nigh…
I’m Always Getting the Points

I’ve never won an argument with my wife but since I learned to let her have the last word I’ve consistently covered the spre…
Brand Loyalty’s a Bitch

Haunted by conflicted feelings in… my therapist and I finally traced… when I preferred Pepsi to Coke and McDonald’s to Burger King but B.K. served Pepsi
If You’re Not Lost You Can’t Be Found, but Just Try Getting Lost with GPS

In the same Talking Heads song the “road to nowhere” is both a “road to paradise” and the way “they can tell you what to… and “make a fool of you”
We’re on a Road to Nowhere

Mid-life is when you realize you’re in a clown car The end of life is about accepting that of all the clowns
Haiku

In my culture low hanging fruit is considered a delicacy
We’ve Been Getting Along Phenomenally

It is often wondered whether the v… People of the Book are reading fiction or non-fiction but since they are each reading an… of a relationship that is phenomen…



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