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" Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it. "

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" 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. "

" When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last. "

" When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company. "

" An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. "

" The strong man is strongest when alone. "

Friedrich Schiller

" I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. "

Scipio Africanus

" If it's just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that's great. That's fine. But like a sandcastle on the beach, it gets washed away at night. It's so much more powerful if we can all share our narratives and doorstep moments and make us feel a little less alone. I'm just trying to use social media and new media as a way to capture that. "

" Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone. "

" Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. "

" I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. "

" I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. "

" It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. "

" There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business. "

" Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose. "

" My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. "

Emanuel Steward

" No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. "

Christopher McCandless

" I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. "

" It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. "

George Washington

" I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. "

" The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way. "

" Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone. "

Hillary Clinton

" One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world. "

" Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. "

" I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff. "

" If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. "

" I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand. "

" The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. "

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