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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
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"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.'"
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"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
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"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
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"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."
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"I distrust anything that you don't hear."
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"I have no confidence in USA law enforcement."
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"I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now."
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"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
Mind
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Art
"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."
Meaning
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
Philosophy
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
Imagination
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Achievement
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
Life
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