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• Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.

  Rachel Cohn

  Teenage, Boys, Intention

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.144, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like yourself?" "Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted." "Really," she said dryly. "Except for me," he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Solitude, Fae, Rogues

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• The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Selfish, Firsts, Crystals

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• It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Axes, World, Strange

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1855, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always honest, if that makes sense. Their wisdom and counsel are always unconditional.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Honest, Psychologist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

  Alan Watts

  Desire, Want, Limitless

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.78, Souvenir Press

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• I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Selfish, Stupid, Sleep

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Cerulean Sins”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Cute, Girl, Teenage

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• Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

  John Flanagan

  Growing Up, Pain, Mentor

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• Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Engineering, Organization, Deception

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• And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

  Elton John

  Business, Looks, Sides

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 25, 2002.

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• In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Real, Lovely

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

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• I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

  Grant Morrison

  Clever, Thinking, Guy

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• Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Law, Actors

  Stephen King (2003). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• ...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Sides, Found

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• Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

  Kate Atkinson

  Sleep, Cat, Thinking

  "Human Croquet: A Novel".

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• Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

  Truman Capote

  Sweet, Children, Heart

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• In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to much more parliamentary scrutiny than before. The National Security Council, through which the military used to exercise influence over the government is now a purely consultative body. But Turkish society still sees the military as the guarantor of law and order. The army is trusted, held in high regard - though not by dissident liberals. When things go wrong, people expect the military to intervene, as they've intervened over and over again in Turkish history.

  Andrew Mango

  Military, Exercise, Army

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• Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.

  Frank Delaney

  Girl, Sports, Children

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.21, Random House

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• Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Eye, Men, Glory

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.66, Revell

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• He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Mistake, Years, Path

  Remains of the Day (1989)

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• Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Decision, Important, Helping

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.19, Bantam

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• Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

  Harper Lee

  Lying, Black And White, Men

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• The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

  Tom Clancy

  Wise, Real, Mistake

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.201, Penguin

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