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- Nov 07, 2020
Alone Quotes
Alone doesn't always mean lonely.
The quotes here move between scientific uncertainty and personal isolation, including one reflection on feeling apart from mainstream family values and another on how loud music once made solitude bearable. For a shareable line, see our Status page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
- Midst
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- Nov 07, 2020
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
- Nov 07, 2020
You are forever alone.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
- Commented
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.
- Secrets
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020