"My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common.""
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"I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on."
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"If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me."
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"where I wholly love I wholly trust."
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"Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes."
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"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
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"The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous."
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"I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating"
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"A global democracy works only when countries trust one another."
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"Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness."
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"America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."
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"Women are more credulous than men."
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"It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right."
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"We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts."
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"Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses."
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"We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it."
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"The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards."
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"The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later."
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"He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust."
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"If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you."
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