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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

—Petronius, c. 60

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

—George Eliot, 1860

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
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