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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Secrecy, Knowledge, Harm, Awareness, Potential

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

George P. Shultz, American Public Servant

Secrecy, Will

"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

Secrecy, Secrets, Silence, Deception, Strategy

"In those days secrets were well kept."

Stuart Symington, American Businessman

Secrecy, Secrets

"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

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

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Secrecy, Truth, Politics, Life

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

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Secrecy, Secrets

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

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist

Secrecy, Tension

"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

Secrecy, End, Guilt, May, Mind

"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

Secrecy, Secrets, Lies, Truth, Psychology

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

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

"In those days secrets were well kept."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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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"Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking."

"To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little."

"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."

"Money: power at its most liquid."

"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."

"Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening."

"Young men preen. Old men scheme."

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