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" All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. "

Jean de la Bruyere

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" What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. "

" Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. "

" Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. "

" Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes. "

" War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. "

Benito Mussolini

" Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. "

" Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone. "

" We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life. "

" Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. "

" Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to walk in the street alone, and I don't cover my face, so I am an open target. "

Manal al-Sharif

" I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes. "

" We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. "

" No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. "

Calvin Coolidge

" I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. "

" To be labelled a cheat - it's not fair. If I'm a cheat, then prove I'm a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best. "

" The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. "

Pope John XXIII

" With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. "

Arthur Erickson

" Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. "

William Butler Yeats

" The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. "

George B. McClellan

" Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. "

Navjot Singh Sidhu

" I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy. "

" He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case. "

" Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.' "

" I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts. "

" My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. "