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• I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

  Ann Aguirre

  Thinking, People, Unhappy

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.97, Penguin

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• The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

  Adam Smith

  Exercise, Men, Hands

  Adam Smith, Bruce Mazlish (2003). “The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Enemy

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• The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Mean, Clouds, Data

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• Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bricks, Within Reach

  P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “What Ho!: The Best of Wodehouse”, p.18, Random House

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• It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

  Steig Larsson

  Men, People, Avoiding

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• As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Covering, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

  Pete Townshend

  I've Learned, Huge, Tested

  "Won't get fooled again..." by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

  John Wooden

  Want, Too Much, Miserable

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• The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Animal, New Orleans

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• Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Heart, Wine

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

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• Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

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• If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Lessons, Ignored, Fine

  "Kirsten Dunst in Depth". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. Septemer 10, 2008.

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• This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Years, Names

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• I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Government, Long

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• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  Frances McDormand

  Trust, Boys, Looking For Love

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• This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

  Lewis Carroll

  Ocean, Doubt, Bells

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Rhyme? And Reason? (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.97, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If it rusts, it can never be trusted
  If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him
  Yes, pride is
  Like a blade.

  Tite Kubo

  Pride, Cutting, Bleach

  "Bleach". Manga Series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.

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• I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Ideas, Intuition

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Transition, Way, Turns

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Trying, Sake

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• I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

  Vladimir Putin

  Grateful, Fate, Russia

  "Vladimir Putin outdoes himself with 'record-making' televised Q&A" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

  Michael Reagan

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

  Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

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• Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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