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• Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

  Norman Mailer

  Humility, Men, Thinking

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• Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.

  James F. Amos

  Military, Marine, Female

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• & this girl right here? Who knows what she knows? So I'm going through her phone when she go to the bathroom and her purse right there, I don't trust these hoes at all.

  Drake

  Girl, Phones, Hoe

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• Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

  Jack White

  Music, Zeppelins, Don't Trust

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• Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

  Garry Wills

  Mean, Democracy, Term Limits

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• I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?

  Reginald Shepherd

  Believe, Don't Trust

  Reginald Shepherd (1996). “Angel, Interrupted”

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• I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

  Cher

  Stupid, Lazy, Records

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• I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Don't Trust, Another Man

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• One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Yoga, Sadness

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• How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Children, Honesty

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

  Steven Herrick

  Father, Enemy, Remember

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• I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

  Eddie Vedder

  Trust Nobody, Don't Trust

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• More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

  Garth Nix

  Past, Advice, Wish

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?

  Paul Lockhart

  Children, Math, Thinking

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• Don't trust, just verify.

  Steven Levitt

  Don't Trust, Verify

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• I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Father, Optimistic

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Romance, Don't Trust, Accused

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

  Fady Joudah

  Art, Thinking, Consciousness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people.

  Robert Baer

  People, Looks, Information

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

  Ewan McGregor

  Believe, Boring, Politician

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• I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Glasses, Fleas, Flea Markets

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Organization, Don't Trust, Policy

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• Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Thinking, People, World

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.69, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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