"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation."
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"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
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"We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe."
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"When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel."
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"The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking."
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"The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community."
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"Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense."
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"A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate."
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"When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body"
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"Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets"
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"In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it."
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"For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good."
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"I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries."
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"To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!"
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"It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment."
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"I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way."
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"The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be."
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"A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost."
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"If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly."
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"Books have always a secret influence on the understanding."
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