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"The real secrets are not the ones I tell."
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"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content."
Politics
"Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind."
Faith
"Fears and lies intensify consciousness."
Consciousness
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
People
"Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean."
Expression
"City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life."
Life
"Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm."
Love
"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
Habit
"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs."
Love
"Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle."
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"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."
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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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Personal Development
"The real secrets are not the ones I tell."
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Personal Development
"When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."
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Personal Development
"In those days secrets were well kept."
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Personal Development
"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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"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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