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" Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction. "

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" Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. "

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

" On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals. "

" Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? "

" The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful. "

" Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story. "

" 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. "

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

" Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone. "

" My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. "

Dolly Parton

Song

Nails

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone. "

" Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. "

" Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. "

George Formby

Business

People

" I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. "

" Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. "

" The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. "

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I Am

Art

" I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? "

" Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. "

" I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. "

" 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. "

" Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. "

" He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. "

" Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone. "

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" My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand. "

" I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. "

" 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. "

" I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21. "

" A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. "

Marie Curie

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