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• One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Cities, Needs

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• The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Light, Church, Doctrine

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• I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Government, Society

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, Fate, Break Through

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

  Joan Claybrook

  Government, Too Much, Problem

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• How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

  Matthew Arnold

  Solitude, Mind, Great Ones

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• Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

  Bing Gordon

  Foundation

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.

  Ted Gup

  War, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

  Ted Gup

  Party, Succeed, Bulls

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

  Edward Kennedy

  Responsibility, People, Accountability

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• All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.

  Clive Ponting

  Senior, Advice, Secret

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• It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Government, Today, Difficult

  "During Vietnam, Rumsfeld Criticized Administration For 'Credibility Gap'". The Chicago Tribune Interview, thinkprogress.org. April 13, 1966.

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• Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Sorrow, World

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

  Ted Gup

  Administration, Degrees, Natural

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Government, Law

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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• I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.

  Owen Wilson

  Pajamas, Littles, Showing Up

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Betrayal, People, Survival

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

  Katy Grannan

  Home, People, Degrees

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• Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and our tax dollars. We would know much less about the powers of the Executive, and its ability to hide wrong doing behind secrecy and classification. The Center takes the notion of integrity very seriously, and its investigations are a model for today's good journalism and, we all hope, an inspiration for the mainstream press to do more.

  Seymour Hersh

  Integrity, Inspiration, America

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• Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

  Vince Cable

  Shadow, Banking, Economic

  "The offensive secrecy of tax havens" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

  Brené Brown

  Hate, Stories, Shame

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Drinking, Sadness, Long

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