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• My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

  Herbert Read

  War, Aquariums, Discipline

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

  Edwin Meese

  Innocent, Crime, Contradictory

  "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, October 14, 1985.

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• To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

  Isaac Watts

  Air, Inward, Dull

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• I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Commitment, Important

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• Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Boredom, People

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• There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Sorting Out, Cards

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances.

  Jonathan Clements

  Smart, Odds, Temptation

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• If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus.

  Leonhard Euler

  Zero, Math, People

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• Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Drinking

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• I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Writing, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Sep 17, 2011

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• I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched people. The me that would one day find some beautiful, intelligent boy who'd recognize me as his soul mate. The me who was secretly pretty and stylish if only someone would lift the veil and see. But I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.

  Sarra Manning

  Beautiful, Girl, Song

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• I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

  Pat Sajak

  Reality, Self, Years

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• The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Reality, Inquiry

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• We need to make this a reality this year or I strongly suspect it will not happen.

  Robert Bruininks

  Reality, Years, Needs

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• You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

  Rajneesh

  Relaxation, Tension, Ask Me

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• I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.

  Alice Munro

  Care, Might, Saws

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.354, Vintage

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• I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage

  Femi Fani-Kayode

  Sex, Products

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• I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

  Nigel Farage

  Occupy Movement, Enterprise, Has Beens

  "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.

  Gary Larson

  Food, Dwarves, Hungry

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• If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world.

  Stephen S. Roach

  World, Flow, Consumers

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• I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Years, May

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf

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• We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.

  Charlotte Mason

  Break Out, Measurement, Unexpected

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• Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of context. Any Romulan worth her salt would have instantly suspected Spock because they are related races. That was wrongmy biggest objection is the scene between Spock and the woman, because I really did not believe it. And I did not believe that the Romulan did not suspect Spock of something underhanded. She does know enough about Vulcan and Vulcans to know that something's afoot.

  D. C. Fontana

  Believe, Race, Doe

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• The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts").

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, House

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• By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.

  Jeff Cooper

  May, Principles, Surprise

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