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• In the beginning was the secret brain.
  The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

  Dylan Thomas

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Brain

  Dylan Thomas (2010). “The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
  The code of night tapped on my tongue;
  What had been one was many sounding minded.

  Dylan Thomas

  Learning, Knowledge, Night

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

  Bruce Lee

  Things In Life, Three, Use

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• It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.

  C.P. Snow

  Wise, Strong, Years

  C. P. Snow (2013). “Science and Government”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

  Joan Didion

  America, Mobility, Sake

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.57, Zola Books

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• Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Science, Technology

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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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• Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

  David Hume

  Spring, Intelligent, Mind

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.374

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• We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

  David Hume

  Experience, Together, Events

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.51, VM eBooks

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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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• 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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• (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 secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

  Michael J. Fox

  Sex, Dirty, Fighting

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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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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• 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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• My wife and I have purchased two hybrids. We bought a 3 kw photovoltaic unit. We recycle and offset our carbon emissions on the Internet. We turn things off. But we also spend two nice salaries every year, and here's the dirty little secret - our environmental footprint is HUGE, I'm sure. We've all got to do what we can in our individual lives, but we've also got to drive the systemic changes that will make the big differences.

  James Gustave Speth

  Nice, Dirty, Years

  "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

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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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• 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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• Trusting God's plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Art, God's Plan, Trust In God

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Am I Messing Up My Kids?: ...and Other Questions Every Mom Asks”, p.208, Harvest House Publishers

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• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  Marge Piercy

  Lying, Cat, Exercise

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• In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Children, Sheep, Secret Places

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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