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The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times.

The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Willie Sutton

Anything you fully do is an alone journey.

Natalie Goldberg

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

James Rippe, M.D.

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
(250 BC - 250 AD)

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC)

It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else.

Marilyn Monroe
US actress (1926 - 1962)

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Madame de Tencin

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylor

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Louis Pasteur
French biologist & bacteriologist (1822 - 1895)

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian dramatist, essayist, & poet (1862 - 1949)

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Juvenal
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell
US (Scottish-born) inventor (1847 - 1922)

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