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Secrecy Quotes

"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."

Chanakya, Indian Politician

Secrecy, Secrets, Will

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"The real secrets are not the ones I tell."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Secrecy, Secrets

"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, British Politician

Secrecy, End, Guilt, May, Mind

"In those days secrets were well kept."

Stuart Symington, American Businessman

Secrecy, Secrets

"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist

Secrecy, Tension

"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."

Sissela Bok, Swedish Philosopher

Secrecy, Deception

"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."

George P. Shultz, American Public Servant

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