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• I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

  Colin Hanks

  Thinking, Knowing, Secret

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". Parade interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Intelligent, Agency, People

  Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan

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• There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

  Steven Sater

  Secret, Musician, Poet

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• The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.

  Tom Peters

  Home, Economy Today, Best Kept Secrets

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• The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

  Ramsey Clark

  People, Secret, United States

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• Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food.

  David Wolfe

  Loss, Nuts, Best Kept Secrets

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• I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

  Anthony Zinni

  Thinking, Iraq, Secret

  60 Minutes Interview, May 21, 2004.

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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Adversity, Government

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• The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

  Denis Waitley

  Best Kept Secrets, Giving, Firsts

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• Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard and every government department, that power has to be kept secret otherwise it will fade and it won't work. But Bradley Manning is violating that principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Secret, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Secret, Done

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• It is essential that Christians understand this. Every Jew, secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing, fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  "The Passion: Jews and Christians are watching different films". www.dennisprager.com. October 28, 2003.

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• All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

  Adam Smith

  Secret, Register, Ought

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.755, Harriman House Limited

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• The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Secret, Treasure, Crosses

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• If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Best Kept Secrets, People, Jersey

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• The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

  Harry Browne

  Best Kept Secrets, Investing, World

  Harry Browne (1999). “Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes”, p.145, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

  Jill Biden

  College, Best Kept Secrets, America

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

  Moses Finley

  Media, Leader, Political

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.

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• How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Teaching, People

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• I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Fashion, Passion

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• Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

  Dan Farmer

  Ideas, Secret, Normal

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