"The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church."
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"The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness."
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"As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted."
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"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
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"Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden."
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"It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes."
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"The Secret of living is giving"
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"What you do in secret tells you who your God is."
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"To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto."
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"My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time."
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"The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action."
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"...oneness is the secret to everything."
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"Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you."
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"Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation."
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"The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets."
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"Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”"
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"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
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"You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them."
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"We are bound by the secrets we share."
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"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein."
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