"All we ask is to be let alone."

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Source : 1861 Inaugural address, 18 Feb.

Jefferson Davis

#Being Alone Quotes

“Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.”

Source : Interview with Tomilson Hill, www.cfr.org.
“Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.”
“Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.”
“Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.”
“The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.”
“I honestly eat chocolate all day long. I do realize how blessed I am to be able to eat what I want and not have to live in the gym.”
“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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