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• Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.

  Sabrina

  People, Focus, Creative

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• There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

  James Randi

  Differences, Brain, Mind

  "McGill University Featuring Pseudoscience", web.archive.org. December 30, 2005.

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• It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wall, Government, United States

  "'A Massive Surveillance State': Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 07, 2013.

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• If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

  Karl Rove

  Want, Administration, Knows

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• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Years, Paper

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• How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Kids, Earth

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• The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

  Julian Assange

  People, Helpful, Protective

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• I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

  Douglas Feaver

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

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• We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Infinite, Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

  Matt Drudge

  Giving, Attention, Stories

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

  Marya Mannes

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Knows, Can Do

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

  Julian Assange

  Successful, Pipeline, Gaps

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

  Charles Olson

  Morning, Blessing, Snow

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.231, New Directions Publishing

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• My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

  Joshua Slocum

  Journey, Boston, Nuts

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.278, Applewood Books

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• And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

  Kathy Mattea

  Art, Thinking, Perfection

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• The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Joy, Religion

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security.

  Merrit Malloy

  Love, Proud, Security

  Merrit Malloy (1977). “Things I meant to say to you when we were old”, Doubleday

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• I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Waiting, Attention, Opening

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.

  Stuart Dybek

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador

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• The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

  Jill Abramson

  White, Numbers, House

  Interview with John Seigenthaler, america.aljazeera.com. January 21, 2014.

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• The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.

  Howard Brenton

  Art, Night, Lunch

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• I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Distance, Ideas, Flying

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• You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

  Arthur Rudolph

  Real, Risk, Trying

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• A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Sweet, Comforting, Secret

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