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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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• in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  California, Doubt, Trying

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.

  Dorianne Laux

  Dad, Kids, Writing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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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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• 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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• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving.  Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.

  Bob Burg

  Successful, People, Giving

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.17, Penguin

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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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• Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

  Elsa Barker

  Yield, Meditation, Soul

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

  William Bolitho

  Marriage, Girl, Strong

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• People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

  Rob Payne

  Beautiful, Confused, Moving

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Disease, Casual, Parentheses

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• Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer;
  Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer;
  Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter
  And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.

  Richard Realf

  Beauty, Song, Sweet

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1893). “Poems”

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• Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

  Jennifer Stone

  Heart, News

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• In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

  David Wenham

  Honesty, Self, America

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

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• With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

  Alan Cumming

  Ideas, People, Wandering Around

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• Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

  Lulu

  People, Forever, Skins

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• You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

  Jenna Morasca

  Different

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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Sight, Bridges

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Women, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

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• Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.

  Bill Vaughan

  Holiday, Discipline, Inventory

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• Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets.

  Aliko Dangote

  Best Kept Secrets, Kept Secrets, Nigeria

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• The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Real, Ordinary

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