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    Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

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    Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

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    But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

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    A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

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    Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.

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    distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

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    Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

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    Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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    He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

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    ... I distrust manifest knowledge.

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    I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

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    I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

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    If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

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    I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

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    Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

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    Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

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    Distrust unsolicited advice.

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    Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

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    I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

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    I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

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    Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

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    It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

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    It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.

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    Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

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    Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

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    Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

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    Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

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    Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

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    Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

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    Seek simplicity, then distrust.

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    Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

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    Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

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    O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

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    Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

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    Seek simplicity but distrust it.

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    The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

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    The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

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    The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

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    The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

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    Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

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    The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

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    The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

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    There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.

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    Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

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    The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of this distrust is the mechanical dichotomization between art's form and its political content; the other is the institutionalizing tendency of anti-institutionalization. We almost never resist ourselves - the part of ourselves that has been institutionalized. We have occupied the word "resistance" and have become its owner, while "resistance" has become our servant. Thus, we own "resistance" and occupy it as a position of power.

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    You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

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    A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.

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    Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

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    Cultivate the art of renunciation.

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    There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.