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• Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance....After war has ended the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Strong, War

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• I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Kings, Believe

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Water, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Richard III”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

  Rebecca West

  Secret, Causes, Ends

  The New Meaning of Treason (1966). West here was referring to the work of Communists seeking to undermine democracies.

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• The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.

  George Berkeley

  Real, Thinking, Views

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• Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Loneliness, Self Confidence

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• To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Ill Treatment, Profound

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• Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.

  Margaret of Valois

  Hatred, Forerunners

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• For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.

  Anthony Green

  Kids, Confusion, Abuse

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

  Nelson Mandela

  Attitude, Hate, Our Words

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 24, 2016

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• He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

  Theognis of Megara

  Trust, Ethics, Should

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• I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sound, Shirts, Good Things

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.

  Paula Scher

  Creativity, Culture, May

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• For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.

  Paula Scher

  Thinking, People, Get Better

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• Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Sweet, Stars, Flower

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• We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Holocaust, Utopia, Ends

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2013). “Making Waves: Essays 1962-93”, p.150, Faber & Faber

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• The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

  Storm Jameson

  Writing, Reality, Skeletons

  Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”

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• Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Joints, Action, Activism

  Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

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• As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

  D. T. Max

  Narrators, Explanation

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Hypocrite, Men

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• I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Done, Charity, Scrutiny

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• There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Past, Land, People

  "The Opening to the Future". Adress, June 8, 1964.

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• The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).

  David Frum

  Two, Media, Information

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• Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

  Mary Ruefle

  Long, Facts, Language

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.42, Wave Books

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• choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Believe, Choices, Division

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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