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  The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

  Bill Murray

  Real, Unique, Self

  "His Holiness, the Bill Murray" By David G. Allan, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2018.

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• Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Grateful, Dirty, Men

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• Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

  Vaclav Havel

  Long, Historical, One Day

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• God hath his mysteries of grace,
  Ways that we cannot tell,
  He hides them deep, like the secret sleep
  Of him he loved so well.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  God, Sleep, Grace

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• There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Idols, Enemy

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• You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.

  Leon Brown

  Flow, Pushing

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• (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

  Stefan Zweig

  Notebook, Education, Learning

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• The soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God's hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear, it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content, because He rules.

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Blessed, Heart, Hands

  Susannah Spurgeon (1896). “A carillon of bells, to ring out the old truths of "Free grace and dying love"”

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• Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Democracy, Trying, Fundamentals

  "Limit Pay, Not Unions". www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2011.

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Gay, Our World

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• If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

  John Elway

  Football, Winning, Fire

  John Elway (1997). “Comeback Kid”, Taylor Pub

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• When logics die,
  The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
  And blood jumps in the sun;
  Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.

  Dylan Thomas

  Nature, Eye, Blood

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

  Thomas Powers

  Writing, Keeping Secrets, People

  The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979).

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• ... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Art, Strong, Rights

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• Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.

  Sissela Bok

  Confused, Lying, Party

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage

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• There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Order, Spy, Enough

  Shelagh Delaney (1963). “Sweetly Sings the Donkey”

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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Failure, Mean

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• On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Intelligence Services, Robins

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• Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

  Bell Hooks

  Sleep, Way, Pretense

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• Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.

  Patti Smith

  Fate, Helping

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• We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

  Alexander Theroux

  Time, Memories, Sadness

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• I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

  Tori Amos

  Found

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• Luck favors the bold.  Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness.  Act boldly at critical moments.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Leadership, Luck

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• ...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Plato, Mistake, Cutting

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