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• Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

  Walter E. Williams

  Way, Know It All, Claims

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• Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sincerity, Livelihood, Depends

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• The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Kitsch, Should, Sentimentality

  Robert C. Solomon (2004). “In Defense of Sentimentality”, p.253, Oxford University Press

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• My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.

  Kedar Joshi

  Art, Understanding, Suffering

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• [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

  Paul Murray Kendall

  Secret, Boards, Agents

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• The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

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• Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior” bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with “stupidly overpowerful dog” and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-­expenses-paid visit to your local police station.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dog, Winning, Police

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.2, Del Rey

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• Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.

  Leonard Freed

  Photography, Mean, Walking Through Life

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• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hands, Pockets, Stolen

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.11

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• I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

  Ryan Howard

  People, Done, Shame

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• In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

  Barack Obama

  Democracy, Sometimes, Discourse

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

  Simon Critchley

  Laughter, Laughing, Doe

  Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.35, Routledge

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• There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

  Jim Rohn

  Fundamentals, Antiques, Littles

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 01, 2016

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• I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Government, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

  Leon Trotsky

  Character, Past, Roots

  "Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary" Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 213), 1996.

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• I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.

  Pedro

  Girl, Ecuador, Stranger

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• Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

  Anna Netrebko

  Needs, Littles, Our Lives

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• Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Murderer, Fatherland

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• Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Animal, Survival, Novelty

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.76, Macmillan

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• But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technological Change, Opening Up, America

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

  Paul Volcker

  Ideas, Use, Economy

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• The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Silence, Important, Unsaid

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• Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

  Dylan Moran

  Soup, Want, Firsts

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• It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.

  Newt Gingrich

  Information, Would Be, Profile

  "On Terrorism it’s Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate". humanevents.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

  Roald Dahl

  Rewriting, Speed, Facility

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