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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. – Deborah Tannen

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. – Horace

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. – Orison Swett Marden

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. – Thomas Carlyle

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. – Hubert H. Humphrey

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. – Samuel Johnson

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. – Carl Jung

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone. – Orison Swett Marden

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle

Work alone is noble. – Thomas Carlyle

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. – Salvador Dali

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. – Rainer Maria Rilke

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. – Blaise Pascal

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. – John C. Maxwell

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. – Henry A. Kissinger

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge

I want to be alone. – Greta Garbo