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Tag Name "Secrecy" (185)

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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker
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A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.
John Adams
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Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
Melina Marchetta
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Secrecy was the problem transparency the obvious cure.
Robert J. Sawyer
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
Francis Bacon
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
Adam Weishaupt
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith
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If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.
Gail Sheehy
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Secrecy is for losers.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
William Congreve
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All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.
William Stanley Jevons
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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
Thomas Browne
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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
Sissela Bok
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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley
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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
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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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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
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