"The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down."

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Source : The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979).

Thomas Powers

#Writing Quotes #Keeping Secrets Quotes #People Quotes

“The world is healed one loving thought at a time.”
“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of Godâ€™s hand until we learn to hear Him.”
“I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.”
“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.
“The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.”
“Do the dishes while you're cooking.”
“I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.”

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