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Tag Name "Secrecy" (185)

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The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.
Thom Gunn
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan
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Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
Philip Pullman
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It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
Donald Rumsfeld
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But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
Andrew Scott
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Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.
Edward Kennedy
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Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.
Rick Perry
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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
Jean de la Bruyere
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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie
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You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.
Jamie Fellner
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The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.
Donald Keyhoe
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The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.
Stewart Udall
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
Anton Chekhov
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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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From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.
Robert Aris Willmott
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I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.
Charles Dickens
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Secrecy destroys accountability.
Ralph Nader
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There's no good that can come out of secrecy.
John Dean
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Jonathan Swift
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We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
Helen Thomas
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Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
Samuel Johnson
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