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		The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Margaret Mead
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				G. I. Gurdjieff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				A. Bartlett Giamatti
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Margaret Stohl
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elisabeth Shue
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donna Brazile
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Pine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In 2013, before the publication of my fourth novel, I met with a stylist at Nordstrom. Since then, I've rarely shopped for 'event clothes' on my own. I usually do it with my sisters or a friend; if I'm alone, I take pictures of myself in the dressing room and text them to my sisters.
	
	
	
		
			
				
				Curtis Sittenfeld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William A. Drake
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Yes, the moon elf was very different. But so were arrow and bow, and yet they worked together to become more than what either might be alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elaine Cunningham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ariel Pink
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Lowery
			
			
				Camper Van Beethoven
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lionel Shriver
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Saint Augustine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And all I loved, I loved alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edgar Allan Poe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Toussaint Louverture
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				M. F. K. Fisher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Do ya remember the first time you had sex? I do, and boy, was I scared! I was alone!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Roy