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• Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Knives, Complicated, Forks

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.151, Penguin

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• William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall chair. One time his father held his arms out to catch him but pulled them away as little John jumped. The fallen son was told sternly, 'Remember, never trust anyone completely, not even me.'

  Jim Marrs

  Father, Cancer, Son

  "Rule By Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commision, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids". Book by Jim Marrs, April 26, 2000.

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• Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

  Lucretius

  Sea, Calm, Shows

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• You should never trust a person who prays in public.

  Stephen King

  Praying, Should, Persons

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Interest

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

  Kevin Smith

  Life, Trust, Failure

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• A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Descent, Macabre, Trusted

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.26, Vintage

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• It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.

  Alfred Adler

  Well Known, Trust Others, Wells

  Alfred Adler (2013). “Understanding Human Nature (Psychology Revivals)”, p.128, Routledge

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• Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

  Lenny Bruce

  Two, Suits, Preacher

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• In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the other that benefited from his treachery will fear him. After all what is going to stop the "turn coat" from betraying him as well.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Hate, Coats, Betrayed

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• Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Articles

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Captured

  "Eleanor Tomlinson Talks JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, Growing Up in an Acting Family, Deleted Scenes, and SIBERIAN EDUCATION with John Malkovich". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

  Bette Davis

  Hate, Fall, Wine

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• Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Selfish, Heart, Sentimental

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• Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.

  Beverley Nichols

  Book, Cat, Men

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• You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

  Clive James

  Mahler, Should, Composer

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• I’ve never trusted anyone all the time. It’s the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.

  Jay Crownover

  People, Care, Damage

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• People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Falling In Love, People, Falling For You

  Song: The Moment You Were Mine, Album: You Hold the Key

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• Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Confused, Politics, Libertarian

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• We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

  Darren Shan

  Things In Life, Assuming, Assumption

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• I've never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don't finish what they start; they don't live what they dream; they sabotage their own progress because they're afraid they won't find what they seek.

  Neil Strauss

  Dream, People, Progress

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.186, Canongate Books

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• Never trust a man in red trousers

  Mika

  Funny, Men, Clothes

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• Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

  Jim Stanford

  Jobs, Mind, Might

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Heart, Tongue

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