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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

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She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. ↗

— Anne Edwards

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

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I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

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Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust. ↗

— Shelley Long

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I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ↗

— James Madison

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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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