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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

  Hermann Goring

  Suicide, War, Men

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Moving, Cat, Kids

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Time, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

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• I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

  Carl Sandburg

  Adjectives, Verbs, Nouns

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Sea, Giving

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• I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.

  Richard A. Falk

  Teacher, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Two, People

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• This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

  David Letterman

  New York, Doctors, Cities

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.

  David Letterman

  New York, Home, Names

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Passion, Thinking

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• I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it.

  Jack Charlton

  Games, Play

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• I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

  David Chipperfield

  Ideas, Luxury, Acting

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly Hills Police were at my door because a neighbor had reported a suspicious stranger lurking around Ross Martin's house. I had to peel off my beard to prove who I was.

  Ross Martin

  Home, Doors, House

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Truth, Thinking, Expression

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• I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

  George Henry Lewes

  Jealous, Desire, Motive

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.153, London, Knight

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• To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Popularity, Enjoy

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.87, London, Knight

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• I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hate, Legs, Bread

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• I am very suspicious of people.

  Mika

  People

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• I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

  Morton Feldman

  Caring, Careful

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• Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

  Mary Ruefle

  Long, Facts, Language

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.42, Wave Books

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• Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

  Sam Altman

  Building, Customers, Products

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• I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

  Ishmael Reed

  Fall, Race, Ideas

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Dream, Book, Self

  "INTERVIEW: Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau". Interview With Heather Scott Partington, electricliterature.com. March 12, 2015.

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• ... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.

  Frances Wright

  Spiritual, Teacher, Book

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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