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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.


Ian Hacking

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CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
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BRAD GROSS In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked, but America's self-confidence.
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of t...
KILROY J. OLDSTER As for peace we subscribe to the UN resolution... although it contains some contractions. We shall t...
GUILLAUME SORO Privacy seems not an illusion for those
who want to believe in secrecy principle.
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabri...
DAN CHAON My clients are not conspiracy theorists. Our problem is just that you have to assure some sense of i...
CHUCK BLANCHARD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our priority is to preserve at least some political stability. The risk of the collapse of the feder...
ZORAN DJINDJIC The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
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SIOBHAN DAVIES It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes incl...
ERIC HOFFER Although I can't make sense out of the rest of it, when I do, it will be in an open courtroom and no...
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BRUNSON MCKINLEY It is worthwhile engaging our sense in self-identity rather than self-dignity.
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FRANCIS CRICK Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
BO BENNETT The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse ...
JANET RENO If someone wants to preserve it, let them buy it and preserve it. We'll see some creative proposals.
HAMILTON OSBORNE when some of the most controversial surveillance powers in the act operate under a cloak of secrecy.
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AUGIE GHIO To design something like this is unbelievable - you've got to love it. It's our history, it's our pa...
DICK ANDERSON And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD How sooner we met a good partner in life it's better from that moment our days will be more smoother...
JAN JANSEN EASY BRANCHES We're very hopeful that the court will uphold this act of Congress and agree that there is some flex...
PAUL CASSELL There is some degree of imperfection and although the imperfections are small and the risk to the pa...
ANTHONY TANG Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely seriou...
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LOUISE HART If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK ...if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of...
F.A. HAYEK If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure...
BILL KELLER Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual...
HENRY ROLLINS Our primary goal is just to get some input from the community.
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MARC GANIS I think the danger is to just look through that lens, to lose a sense of perspective and rush toward...
HENRY PAULSON We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are c...
RAY KURZWEIL Our view is that the G8 was a great opportunity. Although there was some short-term pain, there will...
ANDREW JOHNSTON I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But ...
CALVIN KLEIN I saw some good things. Although we're not at our best, ... Little by little we're moving up to our ...
FRANK RIJKAARD It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should ...
TODD AKIN Until one attains self fulfillment, growth and acceptance, he is unable to preserve sincere,true lov...
INAAM ABDULKARIM To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
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BRAD SODERBERG So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no a...
MARIA MONK Ones self worth is essential in order to face obstacles in your relationship.
LOLA SINS Although the polyester industry and U.S. agriculture markets remain weak, most of our other business...
CHARLES HOLLIDAY Microsoft is acknowledging in a way that they do have some power -- although they won't say monopoly...
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VIKAS SWARUP Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
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JOE LEONE While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
SISSELA BOK Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
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FEDERICO OPINION One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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SALLY SCHNEIDER The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Some of us are married. Some of us got fat, got skinny. Some of us have our hair. Some of us lost ou...
DOUG CHAPMAN This social interaction between cockroaches is automatic in some sense.
JOSE HALLOY We needed to get going and get some momentum our way and we did, although we almost got pinned.
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IAN MCDIARMID There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
IAN MCDIARMID And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ...
IAN MACKAYE At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hug...
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