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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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• A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with no center of union and no common interest.

  Josiah Tucker

  People, Revolution, Till The End

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• One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Men, Mind Your Own Business

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.259, Shambhala Publications

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• He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Christian, Opportunity, Careers

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, Athletic

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• If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

  George Clooney

  Coffee, Home, Character

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• Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Discontent, Stills

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.128

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• Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jealous, Support, Grace

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.230, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

  Dan B. Allender

  Power, People, Leader

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.19, WaterBrook

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• Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

  Plato

  Plato, Swimming, Feelings

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• I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Political, Favors

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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• Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Life, Survival, Essentials

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• I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Focus, Hatred, Annoyed

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• It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Brother, Prayer, Believe

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• I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.

  Peter Costello

  Thinking, Australia, People

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• A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Fashion, People, Desire

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• In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Justice, President

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• The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advises “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says “Let yourself, go!” The mind is strong, never falls down, while love hurts itself, falls into ruins. But isn’t it in ruins that we mostly find the treasures? A broken heart hides so many treasures.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Strong, Hurt, Fall

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• Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

  Hugo Black

  Law, Made, Protect

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• The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!

  John Henry Jowett

  God, Children, Fall

  John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Government, Years, Two

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• Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Real, People, Dangerous

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• I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

  Sara Quin

  Mean, Anti Love, Feels

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