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• A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

  Sigmund Freud

  Anger, Self, People

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

  Rebecca West

  Book, Writing, Might

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.169, Open Road Media

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• Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

  Franz Kafka

  Knowledge, Strive, Intensity

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.

  Laurence Sterne

  Truth, Hate, Men

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• Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.

  David Hume

  Honesty, Fall, Men

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.69, Oxford University Press

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• I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Merry Christmas, Thinking

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview With Gregg Lagambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• ... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Country, Fear, Struggle

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.

  Irving Howe

  Lying, Feelings, Adjectives

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• We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Religious, Behavior

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• Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

  Angela Carter

  Kissing, Blood, Degrees

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• Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Use, Homosexuality

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Believe, Light

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit of mankind, act as fiduciaries for the clods who don't have to be intellectuals, and I suspect that has to do with [why historians love Jefferson and not Hamilton, even though Hamilton's vision of America's commercial future was vastly more accurate than Jefferson's].

  John Steele Gordon

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Talking, People

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Real, Book

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Birth, Given

  "Dave Barry on Bieber, 'Fifty Shades' and Jane Austen". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. March 5, 2014.

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• The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.

  Terence McKenna

  Reflection, Self, Track

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Opportunity, Fads, Claims

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.

  Theodor Haecker

  Joy, Thankfulness

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• I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.

  Adam Hamilton

  Atheist, Struggle, Clouds

  "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

  Gordon Taylor

  Player, Coaching, Want

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• If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

  Charles Dickens

  Keys, People, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17038, Delphi Classics

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• All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave ... while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.... Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.

  Ann Coulter

  Order, Scary, Spy

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• We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, Connections, Fleeting

  Source: library.osu.edu

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