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There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham

We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. – Philip Zimbardo

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

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives. – Ovid

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter. – James A. Garfield

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. – Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. – Michelangelo

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone. – Salma Hayek

Victims always feel alone and helpless. – Deepak Chopra

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! – Anthony de Mello

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle. – William Osler

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. – Brendan Behan

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. – Eliot Engel

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. – Walter Scott

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. – Henrik Ibsen

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital. – Keith Richards

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. – P. G. Wodehouse

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold. – Ludwig van Beethoven