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• No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Military, Gun, Government

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• Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

  Ernst Toller

  War, Everyday Routine, Soldier

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary”, Paragon House Publishers

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• Colonel John Alexander was an original member of the Earth Battalion and served in many interesting paranormal scouting efforts. Eventually he headed up the non-lethal weapons world for the Army. He continues to be a trusted thinker and solid communicator to the Defense world about many of the gifts created by the members of this circle of pioneers. Thanks for this outstanding coverage of much of the Battalions near legendary works.

  Jim Channon

  Army, Circles, Interesting

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• In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

  Gloria Swanson

  Taken, Two, Months

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• The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Animal, Race, People

  Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

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• Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

  John Webster

  Friends, Breasts, Stills

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.84, Manchester University Press

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• First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

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• In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Real, Lovely

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

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• I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Light, Air

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• Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

  Dan Poynter

  Writing, Fiction, Fiction Writers

  Dan Poynter (2000). “The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book”, Para Publishing

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• Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted.

  Tyra Banks

  Scary, Growth, Hot

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• I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Dying, Comfort, Lessons

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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• Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Health, Birth Defects

  John Gofman's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1992.

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• Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Engineering, Organization, Deception

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• He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted.

  Gordon Strachan

  Team, Boys, Night

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• The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  People, Longing, Stranger

  Lynne Reid Banks (2010). “The Secret of the Indian”, p.139, Yearling

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• Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

  Margaret Way

  Men, Alive, Disputes

  Margaret Way (2009). “Cattle Baron: Nanny Needed”, p.146, Harlequin

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• Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

  Bill Barich

  Horse, Gambling, Pockets

  Bill Barich (2015). “Laughing in the Hills: A Season at the Racetrack”, p.211, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Wisdom, Coffee, Men

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• I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

  Grant Morrison

  Clever, Thinking, Guy

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• Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

  Laozi

  Love, Self, World

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Law, Actors

  Stephen King (2003). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Courage, Princess, Race

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• The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Dragons, White

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  People, Trustworthy

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