1,009 Quotes About Secret


  • Author Stefan Zweig
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    Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

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  • Author A. B. Simpson
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    Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

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  • Author A.M. Homes
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    I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

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  • Author Aaron Swartz
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    We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

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  • Author Abby Brammell
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    I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.

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