"Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another."

Secrecy, Knowledge, Harm, Awareness, Potential

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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

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"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

Philosophy, Truth, Perception, Understanding

"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."

George P. Shultz, American Public Servant

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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.'"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"The real secrets are not the ones I tell."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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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."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Secrecy, Privacy, Secrets, Trust, Change

"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."

Gilbert Parker, British Politician

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"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."

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"In those days secrets were well kept."

Stuart Symington, American Businessman

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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.'"

"The real secrets are not the ones I tell."

"When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet."

"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."

"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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