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" The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Object
Truth
Persuasion
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" A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing. "
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" Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature. "
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" I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. "
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" Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy. "
Chiang Kai-shek
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" A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. "
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" I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone. "
Paul Washer
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" To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. "
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Great
May
" 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
Alone
Understand
People
" Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. "
Thomas Jefferson
Safe
Only
Government
" I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security. "
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Security
You
Live
" I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel. "
Audrey Hepburn
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Alone
Happy
" 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. "
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Strength
American
" A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. "
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Wise
Future
Alone
" From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women. "
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" Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. "
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God
Alone
Devotion
" Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone. "
Piet Mondrian
Art
True
Teacher
" You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. "
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History
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Queen
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Young
Satisfied
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Yourself
Practice
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Woods
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