“ The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. ”
- Richard Harding Davis- Copy
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“ The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ He devoted his whole life to education. He kept on giving, even after he retired. ”
- Richard Lamm- Copy
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“ There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ In the end, the secret of writing is to be a tortoise, not a hare. ”
- Jonathan Kellerman- Copy
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“ He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. ”
- Newt Gingrich- Copy
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“ I went to Norwich University in Vermont, a private military college - the oldest private military college in the country, thank you very much! - on a hockey scholarship and studied English. ”
- David Hunt- Copy
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“ Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. ”
- Victoria de los Angeles- Copy
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“ For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ”
- Penn Jillette- Copy
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“ Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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