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• Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

  Philip Sidney

  Doubt, Condemning

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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• I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Sleep, Love Is

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.80, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, Presidential, Nominations

  Broadcast address to the nation, 31 Mar. 1968

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• Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

  Kin Hubbard

  Appearance, Being Pretty, Penalties

  "Abe Martin's Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1914.

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• Foul deeds will rise,
  Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Earth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 256

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• Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

  Mike Rowe

  Dirty, Honor, Looks

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

  Bill Bryson

  Funny, Knowledge, Science

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Life, Believe

  Letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

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• By accepting a suspicion against the neighbor, by saying, 'What does it matter if I put in a word about my suspicion? What does it matter if I find out what my brother is saying or what a guest is doing?' the mind begins to forget about its own sins and to talk idly about his neighbor, speaking evil against him, despising him, and from this he falls into the very thing he condemns. Because we become careless about our own faults and do not lament our own death, we lose the power to correct ourselves and we are always at work on our neighbor.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Brother, Fall

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• A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

  Aldous Huxley

  Smile, Men, Hamlet And Ophelia

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

  Patrick Henry

  People, Virtue, Interest

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• Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.

  Publilius Syrus

  Dark, Sides, Dark Side

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• Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Mother, Ignorance

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• When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Trying, Intolerance

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• How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

  Lance Armstrong

  Fighting, Opponents, Invisible

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• Public credit is suspicion asleep.

  Thomas Paine

  Credit

  Thomas Paine (1822). “The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance”, p.13

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• Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Needs, Unjust, May

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.234, Penguin

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• You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.

  Graham Swift

  Trust, Believe, Doubt

  Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Weapons, Revolution, Sides

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Proof, Hundred

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.444, Google Publishing

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• I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

  Dane Cook

  People, Hopeful, Have Faith

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Mar 25, 2011

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• Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

  Dalai Lama

  Hatred, Mind, Important

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• The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

  Richard Powers

  Ideas, Imagination, Desire

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• Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

  Alvin Adams

  Attitude, Government, Workers

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