“ The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. ”
- Henry L. Stimson- Copy
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“ Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. ”
- Paul Theroux- Copy
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“ A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
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“ My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
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“ What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ”
- Lillian Hellman- Copy
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“ Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ”
- Brian Eno- Copy
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“ Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods — moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former — but no opinion. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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