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• When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Safety, Temptation

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.233

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• Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

  Gertrude Stein

  Strong, Leaving, Suffering

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• The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Secret, Purpose

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Confidence, Buddhist

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• I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

  Alasdair Gray

  Lying, Heart, Speech

  "Lanark: A Life in Four Books". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1981.

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• The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Religious, Expression, People

  Speech at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association Convention, www.thelizlibrary.org. 1896.

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• He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.

  Doris Lessing

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

  Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam

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• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

  Epictetus

  Stupid, Choices, Wish

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Doubt, Sometimes

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

  George W. Bush

  Sorry, Hard Work, Trying

  "NPR Interview with President Bush". Interview wtih Juan Williams, www.npr.org. January 29, 2007.

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• Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Islamic, Support

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• Distrust unsolicited advice.

  Aesop

  Advice, Unsolicited Advice

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• Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Men, Never Trust, Rich

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• I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Issues, Faithful, Trying

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• Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Science, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Telling The Truth

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.158, Ultramarine Publishing

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• They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Hate, Men

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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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• There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

  Christine Feehan

  Betrayal, Eye, Secret

  Christine Feehan (2004). “Mind Game”, p.166, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Moving, Trust Issues, Feelings

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• In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

  Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

  India, Seven, Mathematics

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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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