"Evolution is the secret for the next step."
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"We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art."
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"You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost"
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"I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?"
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"And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me"
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"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
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"The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment."
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"Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones."
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"I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating."
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"Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever."
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"The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits."
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"I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret."
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"We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly."
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"The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer."
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"Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child."
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"There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you."
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"It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment."
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"All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive."
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"When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try."
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"Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret."
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