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• I'll go where secrets are sold Where roses unfold I'll sleep as time goes by

  Katy Rose

  Sleep, Rose, Time Goes By

  Song: Lemon, Album: Because I Can

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• The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

  Helen Hunt

  Heart, May, Tongue

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• Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Decay, Vitality

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• The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you'll discover that “adventure” is a decision after the fact-a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can't quite explain.

  Rolf Potts

  Home, Adventure, Simple

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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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• Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets.

  Aliko Dangote

  Best Kept Secrets, Kept Secrets, Nigeria

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• sharing is the secret of civilization.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Civilization

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• It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

  William Carlos Williams

  Lying, Age, Matter

  William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House

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• The words secret and sacred are siblings.

  Mary Ruefle

  Sibling, Sacred

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• If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Asking, Asks, Ifs

  Jill Paton Walsh (2011). “The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.98, Macmillan

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• figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

  Mabel Seeley

  Data, Figures, Clear

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• We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

  Judy Grahn

  Color, Lavender, Culture

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• If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Friends, Persons, Ifs

  Lisa Birnbach, Patricia Marx, Ann Hodgman (1999). “1,003 Great Things about Friends”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dark, Light, Despair

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.

  Vera Nazarian

  Names, Wonder, Annoying

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• Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing

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• Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Brother, Vices, Debt

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• The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?

  Peter Turchi

  Book, Character, Heart

  "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Thinking, Skills

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• I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.

  Jason Mraz

  Regret, Parent, Wish

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Nature, Views

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

  Leslie Ford

  Cities, Kitchen, Domes

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• people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Running, Mushrooms, People

  Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

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• Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Disease, Casual, Parentheses

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• Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

  Christina Stead

  Money, Passion, Jealous

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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