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Distrust Quote by Wang Jianwei

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“I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.”

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We can no longer contemplate the subject - self - of contemporary art; it has been woven into infinite relationships, replaced by social movements,…

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The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

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At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

Phil Zimmermann

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So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,…

W. E. B. Du Bois

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We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust…

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Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

William Shakespeare

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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

Luc de Clapiers

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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill…

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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and…

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