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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up ...

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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

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And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursui...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be sep...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be mai...

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Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, ...

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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing ...

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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital ...

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The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not n...

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set a...

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Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? P...

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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being...

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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer...

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Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, ...

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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and th...

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You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to t...

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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them ea...

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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci...

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There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...

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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even...

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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had m...

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There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish...

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone o...

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Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

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John MayerJohn Mayer: Battle Studies

Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by ...

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When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by ...

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When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by ...

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When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by ...

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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

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Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not wh...

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I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had ...

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unle...

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Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the w...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reac...

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I'm alone and nobody is in the mirror

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone befo...

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wi...

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Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heav...

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Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doome...

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The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you ...

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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds ...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, ...

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My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone,...

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He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little...

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and roman...

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The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with h...

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, inde...

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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Moll...

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I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this i...

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I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be al...

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I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he...

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Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as lon...

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In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...

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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God...

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to...

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the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation

I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disg...

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More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of ma...

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If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up aga...

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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,...

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My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more be...

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Marilyn MansonThe Long Hard Road Out of Hell

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives wit...

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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd si...

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It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo...

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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place w...

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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtim...

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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and s...

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