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on one's own

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Numerology

  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. Maitri Upanishads:

    One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes.

  2. Hannah Arendt:

    What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

  3. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:

    Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

  4. 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.

  5. Marianne Moore:

    When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

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