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• A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

  Samuel Richardson

  Design, Prudent, Appearance

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

  Wes Fesler

  Flames, Deceit, Heat

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• It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Hot, Abnormal

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.555, Ageless Reads

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• Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.

  William Osler

  Country, Attitude, Ignorance

  Sir William Osler (1963). “Aequanimitas, and other papers that have stood the test of time. [With an introd. by Paul Dudley White]”

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• I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.

  Primo Levi

  Memories, Men, Clothes

  "The Mirror Maker" by Primo Levi, ("The Premise"), 1986.

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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Family, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.365, Library of America

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• It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Trust, Faith

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Atheist, Liars, Artist

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.9, Penguin

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• The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Trust, Essence, Building

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• Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

  Isaac Watts

  Trust, Tasks, Difficult

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• Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?

  Mark Levin

  Men, Blood, Leviathan

  Mark R. Levin (2012). “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Reality, Mad

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• Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  And Love, Irony, Pathology

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.53, e-artnow

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• Finnick:" Good to see you, Peeta." Peeta:" You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you." It could be a joke, if the tone wasn't so cold. Everything it conveys is wrong. The open distrust of Finnick, the implication that Peeta has his eye on Annie, that Annie could desert Finnick, that I do not even exist. Finnick:"Oh Peeta," says Finnick lightly. "Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sorry, Nice, Heart

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• Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and a terrible sickly dependence on each other’s weakness- that’s why. That’s why I couldn’t stop laughing about the Inability to Love, and that’s why I can’t stand to let you touch me, and that’s why I’ll never again believe in anything you think, let alone anything you say

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Honest, Circumstances

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• It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

  John Irving

  Teenager, Adults, Resentment

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

  Idries Shah

  Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

  John Buchan

  Believe, Normal, Common

  John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.1173, Delphi Classics

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• I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
  My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
  I will greet this day with love in my heart.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Heart, Making Love

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 9: "The Scroll Marked II," p. 58, 1968.

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• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Fall, Science, Simple

  Alfred North Whitehead (1964). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

  Jules Feiffer

  Fun, Resent

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

  Neville Cardus

  May, Entertainment, Modest

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Autobiography”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Giving Up, Real

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• Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Fear

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