"All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist."
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"And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many."
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"If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone."
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them."
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"Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world."
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"Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud."
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"There are secrets within secrets, though--always."
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"American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret."
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"Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend."
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"The librarians know the secrets, not the historians"
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"You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest."
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"Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks show us how to discover the secrets to healing, love, intuition and insight."
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"In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought"
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"From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left."
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"The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities."
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"Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?"
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"The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away."
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"Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective."
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"Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'"
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"Obama was heckled by someone who said, 'Don't forget about medical marijuana.' The Secret Service has narrowed the suspects down to everyone in L.A."
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