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" But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. "

Algernon H. Blackwood

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" Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. "

Donella Meadows

" If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. "

Margaret Thatcher

" I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. "

" Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. "

Dag Hammarskjold

" We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet. "

Subcomandante Marcos

" In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American. "

Stephen Colbert

" No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. "

" I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!' "

" Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation. "

" I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. "

" My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research. "

" I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone. "

Melissa Sue Anderson

" I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have. "

Brendan Gleeson

" A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "

Karin Slaughter

" Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. "

William Blackstone

" You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. "

" I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment. "

" 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. "

" Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. "

" Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. "

" It was because of Henderson that I stayed... It was he and he alone who kept me in Toronto and in Canada. Were it not for Henderson, I believe insulin would have been a product of the United States. "

Frederick Banting

" When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. "

" 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

" An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. "

W. E. B. Du Bois