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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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• 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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• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wall

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• If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Body, Life Is

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• I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Technology, Doubt, Advancement

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

  J. G. Ballard

  Inspirational, Political, Way

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Encounters, Different, Needs

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• Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life Is, Fame, Boundaries

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• Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Knights, Secret

  "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

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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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• 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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• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  Imran Khan

  Children, War, Wife

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Robots, Century

  "Space elevators and smart machines: Life in the year 2100" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Taken, Gossip

  Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong (2002). “Conversations with Erica Jong”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Father, Thinking, Done

  "The Path of the Law". Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Harvard Law Review, Volume 10, March 25, 1897.

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• Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Boys, Views

  "Please, stop the Mark Zuckerberg love train" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2010.

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• To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  Frank Herbert

  Demise, Mortality, Ends

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  Patrick Henry

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Jealous

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

  Robert Harris

  People, House, Gold

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• A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

  Augustus Hare

  Men, Evil, Neighbor

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• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Integrity, Responsibility, Men

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

  Alan Greenspan

  Wall, Government, Becoming

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Soul, Said, Canned Food

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.31, LSU Press

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• I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Children, Insane, Would Be

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