Secret Quotes - Page 27

• In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Want, Chess, Conclusion

  "Learn Chess With Garry Kasparov: World Champion". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2003.

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• Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.

  Roger Williams

  Country, Mean, Men

  "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience". Book by Roger Williams. "Address to Parliament", 1644.

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• [President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.

  Peter Jennings

  Country, President, Faces

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• Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

  Roger Scruton

  Lying, Modernism, Conservatism

  Roger Scruton (2006). “A Political Philosophy”, p.194, A&C Black

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• I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life - the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.

  Marsden Hartley

  Real, Trying, Quality

  Letter to Adelaide Kuntz; as quoted in "Marsden Hartley", by Gail R. Scott, 1988, p. 168, September 7, 1933.

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• My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Past, Politician, Assets

  Jennifer Ashley (2012). “The Duke's Perfect Wife”, p.19, Penguin

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• The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

  Michael Foot

  Bed, Looks, Communist

  Michael Foot's remarks on the Profumo Scandal, 1963.

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• I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . . That's always sort of fascinating to me.

  Miranda July

  Spiritual, Thinking, Impossible

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

  George Harrison

  Children, Gossip, Devil

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• The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

  Jack LaLanne

  Long, Healthy, Trying

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• Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Easter, Eggs, White

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• There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.

  Tina Weymouth

  Girl, Artist, Tolerance

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• I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

  Anthony Zinni

  Thinking, Iraq, Trying

  60 Minutes Interview, May 21, 2004.

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• There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Made, Courses, Lots Of Money

  "Information "Wants" to Be Free?". Article at Personal Website, www.jwz.org. 2003, 2005.

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• Today's biggest headlines are stories about people who thought they were doing something that was secret: Jesse Jackson's secret girlfriend and child, Monica Lewinski's private meetings with the president and confidential girl talk with Linda Tripp. Just think of the news stories we've watched on television.

  Ted Haggard

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  Ted Haggard (2003). “Letters from Home”, Regal Books

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• Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Night, Sky

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.

  Moses Hess

  Teacher, Years, Body

  "Hess' Diary" by Moses Hess, September 16, 1836.

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• The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

  Klaus Kinkel

  Power

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• IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

  Darl McBride

  Taken, Linux, Given

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• To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  World, Causality, Instruments

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• 'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Mean, Wrath, Giving

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

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• The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Creative, Habitual

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• St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.

  David Letterman

  New Year, Party, Drinking

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• The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Drinking, White, House

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• All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Vices, Fortune, Avarice

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