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" The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. "

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" Freedom of being alone is intoxicating. "

" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" 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. "

" Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. "

" I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. "

" Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. "

" Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me. "

" I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes. "

" Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio. "

" I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. "

" For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? "

" No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. "

" You alone are enough. "

" In the country of pain we are each alone. "

" Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in. "

" 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 am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. "

" The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. "

Douglas Coupland

" 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. "

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

William Blackstone

" 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. "

" All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. "

" Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. "

" You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. "

" I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. "

" 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. "

" The strong man is strongest when alone. "

Friedrich Schiller