"Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets."
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"According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a rite." She cites Moses Mendelssohn who wrote "Judaism is not a religion but a Law religionized.""
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"A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets."
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"There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not."
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"The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost."
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"Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets."
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"There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God."
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"The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone."
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"You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about."
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"I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret."
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"The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles."
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"Suppose someone should offer me a plateful of crumbs after I had eaten a T-bone steak. I would say, "No, thank you. I am already satisfied." Christian, that is the secret - you can be so filled with the things of Christ, so enamored with the things of God that you do not have time for the sinful pleasures of the world."
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"When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal."
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"Regarding sex education: no secrets!"
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"There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret."
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"Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this."
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"I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself."
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"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."
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"Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience."
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"My joy will be in serving."
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