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• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  Frances McDormand

  Trust, Boys, Looking For Love

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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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• 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 never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Knows, Hard

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• It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Easy, Insurance Companies, Company

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• The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Secret, Chiefs

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.68

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

  Joyce Meyer

  Feelings, Unreliable

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.11, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Strong, Practice

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Judgment, Said

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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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• 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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• Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?

  Mark Levin

  Men, Blood, Leviathan

  Mark R. Levin (2012). “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.

  Kim Harrison

  Camps, Knows

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• Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Lying, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

  Philippa Gregory

  Men, Giving, Wanted

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Queen”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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