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• Buddhism is all about secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Enlightened

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• The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.

  William O'Neil

  Winning, Losing, Whole

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  Chuck Thompson

  Country, Fashion, Stars

  Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Hate, Yoga

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• Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

  Max Born

  Art, Advice, Facts

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Girlfriend, Sleep, Trying

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• I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Dream, Memories, Moving

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• GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

  James Marcus

  Expectations, Lows, Aspiration

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• What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Joy, Sorrow

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.328, Discovery House

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• You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

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• The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it’s like there’s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you’d be crushed under the weight of it.

  Courtney Summers

  Mean, Kissing, Weight

  Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.223, Macmillan

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• I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

  Theophilus London

  Documentaries, Way, Reviews

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• Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Struggle, Fall

  "Petition Response: On Conversion Therapy". Barack Obama's statement on the petition on conversion therapy at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 8, 2015.

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• I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Believe, People, Joy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9

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• I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.11

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• We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

  Mira Bartok

  Children, Thinking, Want

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Dennis McCurdy's Find A Way is a straightforward compilation of suggestions that will simplify your life and set you on the path toward success. The book has the feel of a friendly neighbor sharing the secrets that enabled him to win in life. This is an easy read that pays big dividends. I enjoyed it and highly recommend Find A Way to anyone seeking motivation.

  Tolly Burkan

  Motivation, Book, Winning

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• Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside

  Justin Somper

  Way, Eating

  Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Tide of Terror”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent job describing the cloistered lifestyle and fascinating traditions of the Romani people. Moreover, Mikey's personal story of being a misfit among misfits is both compelling and universal. I cheered for him every step of the way.

  Julia Scheeres

  Jobs, Reading, Boys

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• So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Fun, Distance, Holiday

  "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.

  Juliette Binoche

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

  "Juliette Binoche: 'Depardieu wanted to kill me. But I am still here'" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2015.

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• Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners.

  John Scarne

  Use, Winner, Belly

  John Scarne (1990). “Scarne on Cards”, Signet

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• If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Persons, Ifs

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