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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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• How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Heart, Air, Judging

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.62, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Years, Presidential

  "Lieberman's Iraq Views Rankle Some Democrats". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2005.

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• Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

  Michael Parenti

  Responsible Government, Leader, Accountability

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books

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• The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power, so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hate, Men, Russia

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• The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Safe, Phony

  "Management".

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• And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Congratulations, Character, Fighting

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Eye, Reality

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• Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

  Roy Jenkins

  Inheritance, Heirs, Taxes

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• Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Men, Light

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.480

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

  Wendell Phillips

  Safety, Republic, Constant

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• Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Sunshine, Men

  Robert Southey (1853). “Madoc”, p.249

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• The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Thinking, Average, Guy

  Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1972.

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• I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

  Mark Slouka

  Pain, Circles, Soul

  "Quitting the Paint Factory". Harper’s Magazine, November 2004.

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• My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Heart, Thinking

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.

  Donald Miller

  Distance, Two, People

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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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