#sec

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#although #control #day #day to day #got

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#defense #else #need #power #save

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#angry #every #give #mind #minute

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

#commonplace #each #granted #great #holds

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel. ↗

— Todd English

#anything #around #becomes #cook #force

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#mark #mind #second-rate #stories #telling

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

#had #history #intrusions #music #occasional

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked. ↗

— Enya

#having #include #knowledge #live #may

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests. ↗

— Kit Bond

#because #build #here #high #high priority