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  • The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

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  • A. A. Milne I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Agnes Smedley Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Berkeley Breathed I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Don Marquis It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Leonard Cohen Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Fulton J. Sheen Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • Bryan Ferry Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bernard Tschumi Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William Trogdon There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.
    William Trogdon
     
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  • Blaise Pascal We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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