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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.


Susan Blow

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it ag...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it a...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again...
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JEREMY TAYLOR A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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PERE LA COMBE It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees
DAME EDITH SITWELL Our father was a Finnish man, very reserved. He didn't really talk about feelings.
LEANE ROSS A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
JONATHAN SWIFT I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
AESOP I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath
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JULIE GRADDY Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, to...
JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, t...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but whic...
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CONOR MAYNARD Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpe...
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JOHN BURROUGHS A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his me...
FREDERICK W. SMITH Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
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MITCH LEIGH I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.
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M. F. HUSAIN A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
FEOUDE A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
FEOUDE A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
SHOLOM ALEICHEM No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants
MARK TWAIN Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
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LUDWIG FEUERBACH We work well together. Each of us can anticipate what the other is going to do.
ANDREA WALKER Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they ar...
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E. B. WHITE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the cul...
ALICIA MACHADO Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic an...
MARK TWAIN A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.
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ZHANG ZHIDONG Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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DANIEL HOROWITZ Riches are not reserved for the rich alone,but it is also the right of the poor to also become rich.
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JOHN BUNYAN Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him a...
AYN RAND Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
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ALAN CRANSTON In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books
SUSAN SCHRODER the strongest man is he who stands most alone
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AL GOLDSTEIN It is reserved for man alone to find his very existence questionable, to experience the whole dubiou...
VICTOR FRANKL We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
URSULA K. LE GUIN This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality an...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there...
YVONNE PIERRE Transformation of a nation is a task no man can ever accomplish alone.
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RANDOLPH BOURNE To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if th...
F. SIONIL JOSE Do what you can while you can.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

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SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly...
SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind...
SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because...
SUSAN WIGGS Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth...
SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You...
SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...
SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell...
SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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