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• Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

  Leon Trotsky

  Character, Past, Roots

  "Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary" Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 213), 1996.

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• Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.

  Leonard Freed

  Photography, Mean, Walking Through Life

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• I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.

  Pedro

  Girl, Ecuador, Stranger

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• Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

  Sam Altman

  Building, Easy, Spirals

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• That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Egalitarianism, White

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Common, Failing

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.107

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• The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

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• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hands, Pockets, Stolen

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.11

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  John Milton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Envy

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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• Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

  Paul Theroux

  Mean, People, Cash

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Individual, Surface

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?"

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Trying, Trouble

  "Zooey sings!". Matt Pais, Metromix, July 21, 2008.

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• If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Nuclear, Bombs

  "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent" by Ronny Sofer, www.ynetnews.com. September 1, 20070.

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• The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

  John Norman

  Wall, Enemy, Stranger

  John Norman (2011). “Outlaw of Gor: Gor”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

  Barack Obama

  Democracy, Sometimes, Discourse

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Government, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

  Jim Rohn

  Fundamentals, Antiques, Littles

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 01, 2016

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• My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.

  Kedar Joshi

  Art, Understanding, Suffering

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• I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

  Ryan Howard

  People, Done, Shame

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• It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

  Allan Bloom

  America, Catholic, Soul

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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  Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Sex, People, Acting

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

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• Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

  Simon Critchley

  Laughter, Laughing, Doe

  Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.35, Routledge

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• Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

  Walter E. Williams

  Way, Know It All, Claims

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• Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sincerity, Livelihood, Depends

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• The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Kitsch, Should, Sentimentality

  Robert C. Solomon (2004). “In Defense of Sentimentality”, p.253, Oxford University Press

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