#secrets

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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In those days secrets were well kept. ↗

— Stuart Symington

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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#burn #darkest #eyes #feel #i

Now the big question is: what direction are you moving? Look inward; there is a burning desire in your heart that will make you the person you can become – A superstar! ↗

— Maureen Lawrence

#greatness #lawrence #leadership #maureen #the-secrets-of-superstar

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. ↗

— Edmund Leach

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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#magic #secrets #age

In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets. ↗

— Evan Angler

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