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• Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Imagination, Feelings

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• Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.

  Bob Sorge

  Garden, Secret Places, Growth

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• Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

  Mary Renault

  Men, Voice, Sound

  Mary Renault (2015). “The Praise Singer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love Is, Names, Lasts

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.74, Penguin

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• They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

  Bob Woodward

  Powerful, Government, Nsa

  "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

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• You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Heart, Humility, Knows

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.35, Baen Books

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• I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Political, Clay

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• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Art, Imagination

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• The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Self, Rushing, Serenity

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• Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

  Immanuel Kant

  Rights, Giving, Emotion

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• The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Character, Personality

  Walker Evans, Jeff Rosenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Walker Evans : polaroids”, Scalo Verlag Ac

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• Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

  Wanda Landowska

  Music, Law, Games

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• The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Alive, Today, Moments

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• Time and chance reveal all secrets.

  Delarivier Manley

  Chance

  Delarivier Manley, Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière), Rosalind Ballaster (1991). “New Atalantis”

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• Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Eye, Mirrors, Flames

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf

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• A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Asking, Secrecy, Swearing

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.102, Macmillan

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• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  Stella Benson

  Real, Voice, Laughing

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition

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• someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.

  Alice Miller

  Life, Change, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan

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• In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Voice, Unity, Groups

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.86, Penn State Press

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• it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Envy, Excellence, Admiration

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• drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Drama, People, Devil

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’

  Eric Holder

  Communication, Nsa, Branches

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Key Quotes About the N.S.A. and Americans' Phone Records" by Alex Gangitano and Amelia Schonbek, www.newyorker.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

  Ashot Nadanian

  Thinking, Secret Love, Coaching

  Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.

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• I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?

  Tia Carrere

  Nice, Garden, Hair

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