"The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others."
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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well."
"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils."
"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
"Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system."
"A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know."
"I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God."
"All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better"
"The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB"
"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."
"The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are."
"The secret to happiness is having low expectations."
"Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it."
"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
"To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard."
"The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration."
"The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes."
"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
"It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others."
"Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are."