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"If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony."
"Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step."
"I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me"
"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
"Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty."
"Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it."
"As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre."
"[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens."
"Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain."
"I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it."
"The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters."
"I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be."
"I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one."
"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed."
"Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment."
"I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha."
"The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art."
"I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives."
"Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax"
"But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender."
