"The more I make the more I can give away."

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Yvon Chouinard

“The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.”
“Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?”
“[The government involvement in the economy] is so overwhelming and beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this country away from a government of the people to a government of the regulators.”
“I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.”
“And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.”

Source : Cheyenne McCray (2009). “Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel”, p.71, Macmillan
“There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically..”
“I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.”
“The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.”

Source : Chip Ingram (2009). “True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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