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• God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Opposites, Discipline

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• What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Heart, Men

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Teenager, Men, African American

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Falling In Love, Ordinary, Fallen

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Courage, Selfish, Science

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

  Nella Larsen

  Children, People, World

  "The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories".

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• I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

  Robin Hobb

  Hurt, Writing, Boys

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.2, Spectra

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• There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Evil, Horror

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_”, p.1040, e-artnow

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• I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Years, Cooking

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.

  Lisa Lutz

  Mom, Husband, Gay

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

  William Gibson

  Memories, Culture, Fifteen

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Crazy, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

  Gore Vidal

  Birthday, Believe, Exercise

  Encounter Dec. 1967, "French Letters: Theories of the New Novel"

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• If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

  Jesse Ventura

  Police, Knows, Seems

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• I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

  Steven Pinker

  Sensitive, Cheesecake, Spots

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.534, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

  Jane Pauley

  Meaningful, Dream, Passion

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Greek, British

  News Conference By President Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 4, 2009.

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• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  Frances O'Grady

  Eye, Cutting, Focus

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• If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Stupid, Office, President

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.694, Best Books on

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• Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

  Mark Morris

  Beautiful, Ties, Important

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• In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

  Jon Meacham

  Doe, Prejudice, Today

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• I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

  Henri Matisse

  Light, Effort, Cost

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• Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

  Norman Mailer

  Motivational, Organization, Growth

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential errands”, Signet

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Children, Learning

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• Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Dies

  "Sex, death and nature: Laurie Penny interviews Terry Pratchett". www.newstatesman.com. November 21, 2012.

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