"In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone."

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Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

Henry Bessemer

#Curiosity Quotes #Intimate Quotes #Secrecy Quotes

“To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.”
“Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.”
“Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.”

Source : "Inside Libya: A Conversation with NBC's Richard Engel". Interview with Nurit Zunger, www.gq.com. September 1, 2011.
“With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.”
“No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.”

Source : Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.136, Harvard University Press
“I've always been fascinated by the concept of time.”
“Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

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