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" Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone. "

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" In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. "

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" I think there are a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand figuring out their mobile strategy - let alone their chat app strategy - and programming a Facebook Messenger chatbot. "

" Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. "

James A. Garfield

" The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. "

" Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience. "

" When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away. "

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" The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods. "

Robin S. Sharma

" It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. "

Orville Redenbacher

" You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. "

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

Cyrano de Bergerac

" Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. "

James Prescott Joule

" The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

" I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. "

" One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. "

" You're only lonely if you're not there for you. "

" When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too. "

" Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. "

" I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. "

" I am very observant of people's character. "

" Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. "

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" After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again. "

" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. "

" I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible. "

" I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. "

" The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. "

" No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone. "

" The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord. "

Charles Stanley

" There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. "

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" In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. "

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