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• Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

  Confucius

  Loyalty, Regard, Loyal

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Trust, Healing, Father Son

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• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Trust, Real Friends

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Trust, Father Son

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• Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

  Nicolas Walter

  Trust, Father Son, Men

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• Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Trust, Husband

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Trust, Bravery, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

  Robert Breault

  Trust, Father Son, Hug

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• The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Reality, Self

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• I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

  Amanda Peet

  Jeans, Trying, Looks

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• Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Mass Destruction, Data

  "Putin demands proof over Iraqi weapons". Article by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

  Daniel Handler

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  "The Penultimate Peril: A Series of Unfortunate Events #12". Book by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), October 18, 2005.

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• I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

  Troy Kennedy Martin

  Trust, Father Son, Devil

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• The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Real, People, Cheese

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Jun 15, 2013

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• Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

  Phillip Lopate

  Narrators, Confession

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  People, Trusted

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• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, Hard Times, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

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• For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

  Rosanne Cash

  Art, Expression, Art Is

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.135, Penguin

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• If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.

  Ben Kingsley

  Long, Faithful, Behavior

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in each moment is so well taken care of - and always has been.

  Suzanne Segal

  Taken, Eye, Care

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• We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

  Guy Claxton

  Teaching, Learning, Benefits

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.254, A&C Black

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• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  Archibald Cox

  Lying, Home, Plot

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• Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

  George Sand

  Lying, Experience, May

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• To have integrity one must be consistently honest and trustworthy in everything one does...When you have integrity, people know you will do what you know is right...Its knowing what you have to do without someone telling you to do it. It is the core of a person's-and a company's- reputation.

  Richard M. Kovacevich

  Trust, Honesty, Integrity

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