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Tag Name "Secrecy" (147)

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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort
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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
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Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.
Glenn Greenwald
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
Max Brooks
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Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
Friedrich Schiller
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
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Secrecy can spring from the best motives but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
Christopher Dodd
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Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
Edward Teller
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Secrecy destroys accountability.
Ralph Nader
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Secrecy was the problem transparency the obvious cure.
Robert J. Sawyer
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle
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Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
Harry S. Truman
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
Abraham Maslow
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Secrecy is for losers.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
Sissela Bok
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
Norm MacDonald
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There's no good that can come out of secrecy.
John Dean
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Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought many more, to be spoken.
Novalis
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