- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secret Quotes
On secrets, privacy, and what people choose to keep hidden.
One notable quote here argues that real security software should never depend on keeping its code secret in the first place - a point still debated in tech circles. See also Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
- Dutiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of having a successful promotion is having an awesome promotion with wrestling matches that people like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020