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"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
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"Government is build on secrets."
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"When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet."
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"Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing."
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"When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'"
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"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."
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"It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine."
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"Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another."
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"Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you?"
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"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."
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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."
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"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."
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"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."
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"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."
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"Everything depends on the right perspective."
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"To comprehend the world around you, first, comprehend yourself."
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"Knowledge is a light that brightens the mind, not a burden."
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"To understand, one must first question everything."
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"The real challenge is to develop the capacity to see the world as it really is."
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