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“The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.”

People Care Interest Sin Secret Virtue Taken Evidence Inspired Vices Gossip Consolation Neighbour Malice Untrue Verify

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.”

Given Secret Taken Trade Valuable Linux Ibm

Author:Darl McBride

“... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.”

Looks Feelings Secret Taken Needed Draws Appreciate Letters Freeze Deposits Shared Experiences Freeze Time

Author:Lois Wyse

“the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.”

Secret Power Taken Arms Gold Machines Instruments Unstable

Book:Oppression and Liberty

Source: Oppression and Liberty

“Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.”

Thinking World Reason Certain House Views Secret Taken Mediums Biographies Jewelry Drawers Dumped Biographers Burglars

Book:Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

Source: Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

“A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!”

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.”

Humans Dream Body Natural Secret Taken Objects Youth Sensual Human Body Delighted

Author:Haniel Long

“I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.”

World Firsts Littles War Enough Film Secret Taken Lucky War Of The Worlds Little Things Nerd Second World War Artifacts War Movie

Author:Jeremy Irvine