"Nothing weighs more than a secret."
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"everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it."
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"I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves."
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"There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him."
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"He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear."
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"Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises."
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"I shall be as secret as the grave."
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"The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all."
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"Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art."
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"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."
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"People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane.""
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"I have complete confidence in Secret Service. These guys and gals are unbelievably professional. They know what they’re doing and I basically do what they tell me to do. Now, sometimes I’m the first one to admit that it chafes a little bit being inside this bubble. It’s the hardest adjustment of being president, not being able to just take a walk."
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"We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets."
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"Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy. And what I also know, because I handle a lot of classified information, is that there's classified and then there's classified. There's stuff that is really top secret top secret, and there's stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state that you might not want on the transom or, you know, going out over the wire, but is basically stuff that you could get in open source."
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"Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life."
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"It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all."
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"Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes."
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"That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington."
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"They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future."
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"The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership."
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