#secret

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends. ↗

— Shirley Knight

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All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself. ↗

— Graham Swift

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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#barbie #doctors #dolls #goes #growing

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#labour #language #learning #relation #secret

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#completing #defense #found #get #grew