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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it."

People Secret Long Ago
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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you."

Secret Musician Piano
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Epictetus Philosopher
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"You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not."

Knows Joy Secret
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story."

Lying Secret Humanity
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Graham Swift Author
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"All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself."

Sex Secret Purpose
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him."

Love Religious Secret
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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will."

Body Desire Secret
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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."

War Secret Army
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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest."

Men Opportunity Secret
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."

Water Secret Ocean
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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves."

Men Desire Secret
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