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on one's own

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of on one's own in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of on one's own in a Sentence

  1. Ayn Rand:

    Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

  2. Mahatma Gandhi:

    It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  3. Albert Einstein:

    ...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  4. Baltasar Gracian:

    It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

  5. Chaim Potok:

    [My father] taught me with silence. . .to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul. . . . One learns of the pain of others by suffering one’s own pain … by turning inside oneself. . . . It makes us aware of how frail and tiny we are and of how much we must depend upon the Master of the Universe.

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