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• Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Capitalist Economy, Justice, Goal

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• In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.

  Douglas A. Lawson

  Expression, Giving, Hatred

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• I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, World, Lost

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.182, Vintage

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• Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hatred, Enormous, Has Beens

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Imagination, Interesting

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• The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides. The press has hunkered down for very good reason, because it's being treated like a mushroom.

  Ted Gup

  Mushrooms, Levels, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Respect, Business, Organization

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.126, Penguin

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• See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
  He that but fears the thing he would not know,
  Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,
  That what he feared is chanced.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Tongue, Instinct

  William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (2007). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Mean, Assuming, Trouble

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.

  Jeremy Kyle

  Real, Simple, Long

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• Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Self, Concern For Others

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• It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Historical, Research

  John Dominic Crossan (2010). “The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Fire, Framed, Contemplation

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Tyrants, America

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957". Book by United States Government Printing Office, 1999.

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• Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Looks, World, Path

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

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• I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers. Had I not become a writer that would have been me. Lots of our friends are still in that world and I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the 70s and became disillusioned in the 80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Issues, Years

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sides, Acid, Side Effects

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Past, Hair, Steps

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• If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

  Gerard Butler

  Thinking, Curiosity, Stories

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• A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

  Wilson Mizner

  Fool, Declaring, Fellows

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• People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in the life's race.

  Anuj

  Winning, Race, People

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• It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Fear, Eye, Sky

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• It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the shortest route to get it. They cleave to the things of this world as if assured they will never die, and yet rush to snatch any that comes within their reach, as if they expected to stop living before relishing them. Death steps in, in the end, and stops them, before they have grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Tired, Watches, World

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• Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Ignorance, Conflict, Grows

  Speech at the National Press Club, www.deseretnews.com. March 08, 2000.

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