Secret Quotes
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One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.
Charles Hugh Smith
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It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.
Honore de Balzac
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What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.
Cesar Milstein
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The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret “knowledge” (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home.
Bart Ehrman
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It will come down to who hits some shots and rebounds the basketball. I don't think there's any secret to either of us as far as that goes.
Amy Ruley
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
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The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.
Bret Michael Sychak Poison
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It was completely unshocking that there were monsters in the world, secret rituals and underground burrows filled with the dead, when in my own way, I was secret and sort of monstrous too. It just didn’t show in the same way.
Brenna Yovanoff
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
Terence McKenna
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
William Butler Yeats
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I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.
Walt Disney
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To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in the Department of Justice. With no defense lawyers present, they need only show probable cause that the target is an 'agent of a foreign power' engaged in intelligence gathering against the United States.
Benjamin Wittes
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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
William Penn
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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
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It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
William Carlos Williams
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The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.
Charles E. Bohlen
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The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.
Elizabeth Bear
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I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.
Edouard Boubat
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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
George Bernard Shaw
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And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?
Hilary Mantel
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Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
Fausto Cercignani
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The record of the race, hitherto accepted as the truth about ourselves, has been the story of facts and conditions as the male saw them – or wished to see them. . . . No secret has been so well-kept as the secret of what women have thought about life.
Elizabeth Bisland