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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

  John Galt

  Men, Self, Feelings

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

  Horace

  Wine, Light, Soul

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• As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.

  Lene

  Magic, Tricks, Courses

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• The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Historical, Events

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.70, Penguin

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• There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.

  Frank Warren

  Thinking

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• There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

  Michael Bassey

  Dream, Distance, Climbing

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• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

  Alan Watts

  Fire, Games, Giving

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• The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

  Isaac Asimov

  Successful, Fool

  Isaac Asimov (1970). “The English plays”

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• The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Envy, Applause

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• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his
  neighbour's heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Heart, Men, World

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 13,

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• No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Happiness, Simple

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• Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Struggle, Knowing

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• We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.

  Vaclav Havel

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

  Herodotus

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

  Saadi

  Confidence, May, Want

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• The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.

  William D. Cohan

  Brother, Wall, Dirty

  "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street". Book by William D. Cohan, March 10, 2009.

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• I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the lives of those who have gone before, I have created life.

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

  Life, Gone, Veils

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• Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Powerful, Love Life, Simple

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• Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

  Bruce McCall

  Funny, School, Humor

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• I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.

  Sy Safransky

  Writing, Heart, Eye

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• It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

  Colleen Hoover

  Confession, Ifs

  Colleen Hoover (2015). “Confess: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Way, Firsts, Speak

  Juan Felipe Herrera (2008). “Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems”, p.301, University of Arizona Press

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