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Quote by Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be some

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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Habits
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Truth
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

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Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and its a very safe place. – Aleksa Palladino

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Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. – Eric Sevareid

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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. – Warren G. Bennis

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Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. – Aldrich Ames

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