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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a pub

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. – Thomas Jefferson

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. – Danny Boyle

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The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. – Ato Boldon

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It is important not to trust people too much. – V. S. Naipaul

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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust. – Bai Ling

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Its lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. – Muhammad Ali

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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. – Salman Rushdie

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God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer. – Janet Reno

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