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"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." »Henry Stimson
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"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." »Henry L. Stimson
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"Seek simplicity, and distrust it." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." »Henry David Thoreau
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"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink." »Joe Lewis
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action." »Frank Herbert
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"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment." »Alvin Toffler
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"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!" »Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
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"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." »H.L. Mencken
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"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American." »David Duchovny
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"To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want." »Ernest Hemingway
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"If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace." »Fridjof Nansen
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"Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury." »Author Unknown
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"Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear." »William Gladstone
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