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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
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot go alone to God. We belong to His Mystical Body, the Church; by even our most secret sins, if they be grievous, we have injured the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ and must ask forgiveness of His Mystical Body, too.
- Nov 07, 2020
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.
- Nov 07, 2020