Quotes with alone

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  • Charles Dickens Now, what I want is, Facts... Facts alone are wanted in life.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bhagavad Gita On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
    Bhagavadgita
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Janis Joplin On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
    Janis Joplin
    American singerer (1943 - 1970)
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  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Paracelsus Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Bell Hooks One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Benjamin Tucker One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.''
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Paul Tillich Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Martin Luther Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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  • Martin Amis People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Swami Ramdas People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Berenice Abbott Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
    Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Dryden Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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