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" Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. "
Sophocles
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" You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. "
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" As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success. "
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" Successful crimes alone are justified. "
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" This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. "
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" I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices. "
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" India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. "
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" If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food. "
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" Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. "
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" People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it? "
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" Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. "
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" Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. "
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" For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. "
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" There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. "
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" Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. "
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" I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. "
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" Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system. "
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" One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone. "
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