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• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Trust, Water, Alcohol

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• Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Self, Class, Roots

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• When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

  Shakti Gawain

  Validation, Giving, Approval

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Trust, Faith

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.

  James Stalker

  Memories, Fall, Mean

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• But if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.

  Francine Prose

  Ideas, Ironic, Quality

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• A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Funny, Husband, Women

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.33, BookBaby

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• There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Integrity, Commitment, People

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• Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Religious, Real, Writing

  "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later". Speech by Philip K. Dick, published in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (book by Philip K. Dick), 1978.

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• Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Courage, Selfish, Science

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

  Anne Carson

  Love Is, Fake, Good Place

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• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, War, Dirty

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

  Tamora Pierce

  Advice, Should, Ought

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “The Realms of the Gods”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

  Graham Greene

  Revenge, Worry, Tests

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Trust No One, Taught

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.958, Bantam

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• Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

  Isaac Watts

  Trust, Tasks, Difficult

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• The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Trust, Essence, Building

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• The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

  George Gilder

  Profound, Suffering, Flaws

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.117, Regnery Publishing

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• One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Night, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Trust, Husband

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

  Allen W. Wood

  Use, Intellect, Rely

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• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Needs, Definitions

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• When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Winning, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are, with whom he never before had, or ever again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.

  Charles Darwin

  Communication, People, Kind

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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