“ To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. ”
- Lu Xun- Copy
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“ He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and He that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem. ”
- Tabare Vazquez- Copy
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“ Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious. ”
- Wangari Maathai- Copy
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“ Talk in a normal voice. Terrorists are suspicious of whispering. ”
- Stanley Klein- Copy
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“ I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
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“ You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
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“ Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour! ”
- Tom Baker- Copy
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“ You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization. ”
- Jane O’Reilly- Copy
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“ Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe. ”
- James Lileks- Copy
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“ A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
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“ Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ”
- H. Mumford Jones- Copy
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“ Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ”
- John Lahr- Copy
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“ Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ If our spirituality, no matter how disciplined, lofty and inspiring, is making us less warmly human, more detached, suspicious of our human 'feelings, emotions, and passions,' then something has gone seriously wrong. ”
- Flora Slosson Wuellner- Copy
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“ Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions… ”
- Alexander Herzen- Copy
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“ The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours. ”
- Beatrice Vincent- Copy
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