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"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
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"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
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"Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets."
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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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"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."
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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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"Government is build on secrets."
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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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"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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"I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive and productive industry. Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly."
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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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"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life."
Life
"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual."
Accomplishment
"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
Secrecy
"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
Life
"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."
Economy
"The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli."
Change
"In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief."
Faith
"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."
Society
"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."
Life
"In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events."
Change
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