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"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."

"Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'"

"I have no confidence in USA law enforcement."

"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."

"These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason."

"I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far."

"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
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"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."

"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."

"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
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