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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's…
— Jennifer Aniston
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
— Duke of Wellington
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow…
— J. William Fulbright
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often…
— Eric Hoffer
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If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety.…
— Mooji
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It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,…
— Unknown Author
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Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
— Mason Cooley
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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