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" To be adult is to be alone. "
Jean Rostand
Adult
Alone
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" Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. "
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" 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. "
Hasan Minhaj
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" We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled. "
Barack Obama
" David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle. "
Charles Studd
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" So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone. "
Corey Taylor
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" Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. "
Henri Nouwen
Time
Alone
Busy
" The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. "
Kofi Annan
Had
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" I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing. "
Chantal Kreviazuk
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" The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them. "
Jean-Luc Godard
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" A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. "
Henry Kissinger
Leadership
Leader
Alone
" The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you. "
Al Lopez
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Walls
Time
" I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone. "
Pat Nixon
Alone
Silent
Talking
" No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers. "
Laurie Colwin
Past
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Alone
" Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. "
Richard Dawkins
Alone
Religion
Saying
" The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. "
Jennifer Granholm
Small
Economy
Hands
" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "
James Madison
Alone
Free
People
" Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. "
Ramakrishna
God
Alone
Devotion
" I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. "
Meryl Streep
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" The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream? "
Edmond Rostand
Interest
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Alone
" I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone. "
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" In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. "
John Barrymore
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Great
Sometimes
" If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone. "
Roger Penrose
You
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Mathematics
" Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. "
Rollo May
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Loneliness
" 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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" 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. "
Joe Rogan
Potential
Alone
Ideas
" Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes. "
Yasser Arafat
Alone
Sense
Peace
" I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. "
John Wesley
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" 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
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" I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. "
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" You only grow when you are alone. "
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