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Jason L. Pyrz

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Born
in Berwyn, IL, The United States
June 01, 1977

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Douglas Adams, Anthony Bourdain, Terry Pratchett, Michael Palin

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Jason Pyrz was born into the unfortunate situation of having a family name with no true vowels. Having lived most of his early childhood in the near southwest suburbs of Chicago, directly under the approach to Midway Airport, nothing exciting really happened to him with the exception of the time he got to shake Mr. T’s hand on a school field trip to a movie set. Jason attended Loyola University Chicago, where he was a member of the Men’s Volleyball Team and entered the record books as the first bench warmer in team history. Since graduating he has lived in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Orange County, and has worked as a webmaster, a project manager, and a trial attorney. Jason currently resides in Naperville, IL with his wife, Sue, and ...more

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A little nugget of Dickensian observational wisdom on this Christmas Eve.
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“it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it”
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“We shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to inquire than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know.”
Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

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“Mormonism was like junk food: It was American to the core and it looked all right, but it wasn't until after you had swallowed some that you felt strange. I”
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“happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.”
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“Beauty. Grace. That’s what matters. If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.”
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“You know, you sound a very educated man for a barbarian,” said Rincewind. “Oh, dear me, I didn’t start out a barbarian. I used to be a school teacher. That’s why they call me Teach.” “What did you teach?” “Geography. And I was very interested in Auriental* studies. But I decided to give it up and make a living by the sword.” “After being a teacher all your life?” “It did mean a change of perspective, yes.” “But … well … surely … the privation, the terrible hazards, the daily risk of death…” Mr. Saveloy brightened up. “Oh, you’ve been a teacher, have you?”
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

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