"In those days secrets were well kept."

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"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist

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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."

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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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"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?"

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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

Sissela Bok, Swedish Philosopher

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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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"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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"In those days secrets were well kept."

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