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• Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

  William Ellery Channing

  Believe, Sacrifice, Greatness

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.8

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• I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).

  Charles Stross

  Believe, Light, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

  Adam Rogers

  Wine, Beer, Law

  "I Went Drinking With the Author of “Proof,” This New Book on the Science of Booze". Interview with Alex Park, www.motherjones.com. May 28, 2014.

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• For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

  Caitlin Moran

  Sweat, Smell, Issues

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Treasure

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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• Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

  Richard Dawkins

  White, Black, Entertainment

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• What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

  Jared Bernstein

  Oil, President, Fracking

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• I suspect people are going to vote for Max Burns because they know him as local boy who's got - share their values.

  George W. Bush

  Boys, People, Max

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2006.

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• I suspect that someday in a world with legal marijuana for adults, you will probably have branding that occurs for different types of the product.

  Jared Huffman

  Marijuana, Adults, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

  Charles Churchill

  Law, Lawyer

  Charles Churchill, James Hannay (1866). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay”, p.240

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• In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism or drug trafficking. But if your funds derive from trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation, for example, or from illegal arms trafficking or any other illegal activity, then banks in the US are legally free to accept your money and are not required to report your deposit to the authorities.

  Thomas Pogge

  Children, Illegal Activities, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.

  Richard A. Falk

  Government, Atmosphere, Citizens

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There's little more to say about that really, and it's certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it's probably the truth. In any case, we're in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities.

  James Howard Kunstler

  War, Faces, Usual

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Ambition, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.3

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• When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Self, Racism, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

  Jean Racine

  Heart, Noble, Malice

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• I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

  Sally Ride

  Thinking, People, Orbit

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Innocence, Crime, Incapable

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• But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Thinking, Cover Ups

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Drug, Wish, Demand

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Novelists, Biased

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 2008.

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• Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

  Ann Brashares

  Long, Separation, Mourn

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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• Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means.

  Simone Elkeles

  Tattoo, Mean, Eye

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• I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, People, Bangs

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