"When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends."
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"I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are."
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"If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised.""
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"Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret."
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"My dog keeps looking at me as if he knows my secret, as if he and he alone can see my soul. That or he wants this pork chop."
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"I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right."
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"Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade."
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"We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable."
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"They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped."
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"The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss."
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"Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key."
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"Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows."
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"The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location."
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"If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive."
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"If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles."
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"Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him."
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"Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point."
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"The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge."
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"It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets."
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"Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations."
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