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"The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons."
"i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up."
"In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth."
"No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing."
"History is the story of warfare between secret societies."
"It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret."
"We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person."
"That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid."
"You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others."
"Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame."
"There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide."
"Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once."
"The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary."
"Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years."
"You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate."
"Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you."
"Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have."
"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it"
"We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear."