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  • #1
    Louis L'Amour
    “When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #2
    Shannon L. Alder
    You Chose

    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.

    You chose to give away your love.
    You chose to have a broken heart.
    You chose to give up.
    You chose to hang on.

    You chose to react.
    You chose to feel insecure.
    You chose to feel anger.
    You chose to fight back.
    You chose to have hope.

    You chose to be naïve.
    You chose to ignore your intuition.
    You chose to ignore advice.
    You chose to look the other way.
    You chose to not listen.
    You chose to be stuck in the past.

    You chose your perspective.
    You chose to blame.
    You chose to be right.
    You chose your pride.
    You chose your games.
    You chose your ego.
    You chose your paranoia.
    You chose to compete.
    You chose your enemies.
    You chose your consequences.

    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.

    However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:

    Choose to let go.
    Choose dignity.
    Choose to forgive yourself.
    Choose to forgive others.
    Choose to see your value.
    Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
    Choose to make us proud.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Studs Terkel
    “Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”
    Studs Terkel

  • #6
    Ford Madox Ford
    “It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.”
    Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ... & No More Parades

  • #7
    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #8
    William S. Burroughs
    “Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #9
    Dashiell Hammett
    “I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...”
    Dashiell Hammett

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    Stephen King

  • #11
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ”
    J. Robert Oppenheimer

  • #12
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”
    J. Robert Oppenheimer

  • #13
    Jerry Seinfeld
    “If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
    Jerry Seinfeld

  • #14
    Jerry Seinfeld
    “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason”
    Jerry Seinfeld

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #30
    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    Henry Green



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