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• Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Jealousy, Perfect, Want

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Silence

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Communication, Home, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1872). “Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...”

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• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Healing, Issues

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• He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wrinkles, Noses, Conscious

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• Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have made; more willing, in some cases, to entertain the possibility of getting along with countries who some would call an adversary, such as Mr. Putin's Russia.

  Richard N. Haass

  Country, America, Russia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I already love the idea that Barry has a colleague. It seems like a love/hate thing between my character and his already. They work together, so they clearly have some tolerance for each other, but they're just ruffling each other up the wrong way, constantly. I don't know whether that will lead to him being suspicious of Barry's identity or whether he'll have some clash with The Flash.

  Tom Felton

  Hate, Character, Ideas

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Differences, Our World, Doubt

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Lazy, Laziness

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.

  Trevor Noah

  Confusion, People, Would Be

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Lying, Facts

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.92

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• Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

  Anne Frank

  War, Men, Facts

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rely on the Holy Spirit in their intellectual pursuits, but this does not mean they should expend no mental sweat of their own in defending the faith

  J.P. Moreland

  Christian, Mean, Sweat

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• I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

  John Hurt

  Order, Play, Sick

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• A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Zumba, Work Out

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• Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

  John le Carre

  News, Literature, Secrecy

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• I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

  Tony Gilroy

  Lying, Ideas, Two

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• Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

  Mike Rowe

  Men, Flats, Pleats

  "Dirty Job: Catching Up With Mike Rowe". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  Benjamin Spock

  Class, Ideas, Racism

  "Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior". Book by Benjamin Spock, p. 103, 1970.

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• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Gertrude Stein

  America, Upset, Friendly

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Affection, Persons

  Church and Home (published by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church), Volume 1, p. 21, 1964.

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• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Anniversary, Being Happy

  "The Importance of Being Earnest". Revised Edition,

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• You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Robots, Want, Scope

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• The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

  Julian Baggini

  Trying, Argument, Failing

  "The modern believer is not suspicious enough" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don’t even think about chewing gum the wrong way.’ (Carlos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Practice

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2009). “Whispered Lies”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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