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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of of one's own in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of of one's own in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of of one's own in a Sentence

  1. Albert Einstein:

    Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

  2. Elizabeth Elton Smith:

    There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one's own.

  3. Joan Didion:

    The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

  4. Miguel de Cervantes:

    A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

  5. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

    What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

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