“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”
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“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.”
“My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.”
“Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”
“He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.”
“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.”
“And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.”
“Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.”
“Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.”
“I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.”
“I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.”
“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
“I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.”
“Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.”
“There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.”
“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”
“Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.”
“The writer is all alone.”
“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”
“There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”
“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.”
“If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”
“I don't like being alone.”