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• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Imagination, Lag, Ruthlessness

  "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

  Rebekah Brooks

  Media, Suffering, Sometimes

  "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Cheating, Fall, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.704, Delphi Classics

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• I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

  Michael Badnarik

  Agency, Needs, Individual

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• But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

  Nick Hornby

  Narrative, Kind, Week

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• I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

  Simone Signoret

  Actors, Answers, Alive

  Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Mind, Principles

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.18

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• I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loathing, Admiration, Efficiency

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

  Curt Goetz

  Jealousy, Jealous, Knows

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• The less we know the more we suspect

  Josh Billings

  Reading, Knows

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.171

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• (3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.

  Raymond Keene

  Judgement, Chess, Study

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• The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Educational, Commitment, Economic Inequality

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, People, Events

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• Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

  Karl Barth

  Idols, Doubt, World

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• We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are abused by the culture. And what's more treacherous than when the rewards of child stardom issue from the abuse?
  Child stars are performers above all else. Whenever their triumps, they are going to make sure we see everyone of their scars. That's the final price of admission.

  Margo Jefferson

  Stars, Children, Believe

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• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  Francis Atterbury

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

  Sam Keen

  Voice, Events, Each Day

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

  George Crumb

  Spiritual, Interesting, Levels

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• I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

  Hugh Mackay

  Unique, Imperfection, Secret

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• I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

  Brewster Ghiselin

  Writing, Mentor

  Brewster Ghiselin (1985). “The Creative Process: A Symposium”, p.126, Univ of California Press

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• Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Heaven, Deceived

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.188, Harvard University Press

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• Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Space, Shapes, Empty

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Men, Doe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

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• Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Writing, Thinking

  Patricia T. O'Conner (2000). “Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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