"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

Trust, People

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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

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"The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"God is the guarantee of our security."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Trust, Complaints, Dedication, Faith, Gratitude

"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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"I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Trust, Gratitude, Support, Help

"Trust. And be trusted."

Richie Norton, American Author

Trust, Betrayal, Risk, Relationship

"You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."

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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."

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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."

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"I write books to find out about things."

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"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."

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