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• When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Confidence, Gun, People

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• Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

  Eric Sevareid

  Trust, Men, Errors

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• Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

  John Churton Collins

  Life, Trust, Men

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• You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

  Malcolm Cowley

  Kind, Sometimes, Kitten

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, People, President

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Science, Simplicity

  The Concept of Nature ch. 7 (1920)

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• Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, People, May

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• If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

  Selena Gomez

  Trust, People, Three

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

  Franz Boas

  Civilization, Disease, Corny

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• Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Trust, Errors, Wells

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• When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hate, Conclusion, Lack Of Faith

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• Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Faith, Fear, Fighting

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Peace, Hate, Humility

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• Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Deceived

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• Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Giving, Knavery

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• In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Deception, Deceit

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• I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

  Antjie Krog

  Thinking, People, Letters

  "I write because I can't speak" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2004.

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• It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Awakening, Impossible

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceit, Justify

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• Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Pain, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.132

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• When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ghetto, Sacrifice, Makeup

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• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Trust, Love Life, Joy

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