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The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Casey Stengel
The secret of my success is longevity.
Charles Hartshorne
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.
Charles Krauthammer
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.
Claude McKay
Everybody's got a secret Sonny, Something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it; They carry it with them every step that they take. Till some day they just cut it loose. Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions, Or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.
Bruce Springsteen
The street's alive as secret debts are paid. Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
Bruce Springsteen
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
We've discovered the secret of life.
Francis Crick
Truth is the secret of eloquence and virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and of life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Brontë
I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right, and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.
Leonard Cohen
Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
Frederick William Faber
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Paulo Coelho
Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.
Paulo Coelho
This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.
Edward Heath
... the Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
Clement Attlee
I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.
Jacques Derrida
Every generation is its own secret society.
Kim Stanley Robinson
The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.
Ayn Rand
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