“ Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
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“ Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ”
- Cardinal De Richelieu- Copy
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“ Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ”
- Daniel C. Gelman- Copy
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“ A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love. ”
- Antiphanes- Copy
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“ I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding but no tongue. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The public deserves to know whether this is a case of FDA incompetence and a lack of diligence, or whether the FDA made a decision to protect the company's confidentiality over the public health,... Either way, we have a serious problem on our hands. ”
- Edward Markey- Copy
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“ First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society. ”
- Allan Bloom- Copy
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“ In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism. ”
- Catherine Marshall- Copy
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“ Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich. ”
- Andrew Murray- Copy
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“ Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious. ”
- Wangari Maathai- Copy
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“ Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ”
- Walter Winchell- Copy
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