"At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened."
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"Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off."
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"The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine."
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"I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great."
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"Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty."
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"No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document."
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"true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend"
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"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."
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"Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves."
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"If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth."
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"Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent."
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"Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it."
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"To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills."
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"Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!"
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"Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder."
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"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice."
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"Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!"
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"There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full."
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"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy"
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"We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action."
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