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“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”

Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

“Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.”

Heart Long Hate Secret Bears My Heart Muse Chamber Long Life

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.”

Littles Secret Cities Towns Patient Dirty Pleasant Thoughtful Commerce Polite Chamber New Yorkers Epidemics Niceness Surly Chamber Of Commerce

Book:Every Step You Take

Source: Every Step You Take

“When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.”

Giving Soul Play Facts Speak Prayer Secret Influence Benefits Plenty Your Soul Chamber Distracted Prelude

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.”

Spiritual Secret Abandon Spiritual Life Decay Chamber

Book:Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a Sacred Hymn Suited to Each Subject. Design'd for the Use of Christian Families as Well as for the Hours of Devout Retirement

Source: Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a Sacred Hymn Suited to Each Subject. Design'd for the Use of Christian Families as Well as for the Hours of Devout Retirement

“While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.”

Way Has Beens Ends Problem Action Given Secret Despair Thirds Glorious Plot Abandon Harry Potter Preparing No Problem Pointing Chamber Potters

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005