Quotes with secret

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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Harold S. Geneen Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ben Okri Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • William Blake Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Virginia Woolf Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Lord Acton Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • David Foster Wallace Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Tacitus Forbidden things have a secret charm.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Baltasar Gracian He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Sigmund Freud He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • William Goldman Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • William Feather Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Emily Dickinson His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Dean William R. Inge How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Aaron Klug Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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