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• I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

  Lin Yutang

  Personality, Sense Of Humor, Affair

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down.

  Deepak Chopra

  Balance, Energy, Shutting Down

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• The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives.

  Mark Riebling

  Military, Historical, Mind

  "Rumsfeld’s Spy Unit". "To the Point" with Warren Olney, NPR, markriebling.blogs.com. October 31, 2002.

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• The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Believe, Leader, Democracy

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• When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top, from the President, is following mean-spirited tendencies: fear and undue caution and distrust of the other, so it's very depressing.

  George Saunders

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

  W. H. Auden

  Country, Men, Law

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• I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run everything and are looking out for themselves at our expense. Add it up and you get LOTS more conspiracy theorists.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the private banks, will be much more efficient, productive and even democratic if they are left to themselves: in other words, the criticism of the Fed really reflects a desire to cripple the government in the service of increasing the power and authority of the market.

  Gerald Epstein

  Government, Criticism, Desire

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

  Dorothea Lange

  Mind, Gone, Instinct

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The majority of the people in this country love America, do not dislike it, do not distrust it. The majority of people in this country do not want our culture further attacked and rotted away. The people of this country are sick and tired of not having any good-paying jobs anymore. The people of this country are sick and tired of being told that America's best days have already happened.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Tired, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What we're trying to do in conversational intelligence is not only define that trust continuum for people, not only helping them notice, which is so important, what's happening in them and others when distrust lives, but also how to bring people in trust. When they do, what happens, this part of our brain, the prefrontal cortex is loaded with wisdom, integrity, strategy, insights, empathy, foresight. It's beautiful. It's so designed for that, and often it's turned off because people don't have trust with each other.

  Judith E. Glaser

  Beautiful, Integrity, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a democracy is built by people just like themselves that there must be secret plots and cover-ups and wizards behind the scenes running the machine.

  Christopher Bollen

  Running, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Trust, Boyfriend

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Knowledge, Men, Despair

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• Distrust interested advice.

  Aesop

  Advice

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.66, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.

  A. B. Simpson

  Hope, Healing, Giving

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Respect, Mean, Desire

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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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• We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Focus, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a
  question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought,
  distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has
  considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually
  simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do
  not bear examination.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Men, Views, Giving

  Joseph de Maistre, Richard Lebrun (1993). “St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence”, p.205, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

  Jason Alexander

  Meaningful, Personality, Vantage Point

  "Playing Your Role: A Middle East Peace Drama" by Jason Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

  George Will

  Government, Matter, Judgment

  "The Inalienable Right to a Remote". www.washingtonpost.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Seek simplicity, then distrust.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity

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• In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'

  Claude Simon

  Dog, Plato, Philosophy

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• Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Life and Death of King John”, p.242, Oxford University Press, USA

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