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" Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. "

Octavio Paz

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" There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. "

" It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together. "

" Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. "

" It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. "

" Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. "

" I restore myself when I'm alone. "

" 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. "

" You cannot go far alone. You enjoy your journey better if you have people by your side. "

" We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent. "

" We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information. "

" Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? "

" But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. "

" I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. "

" There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it. "

" No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone. "

" We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone. "

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" For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. "

" I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything. "

" Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. "

" I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. "

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