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smilliken on Jan 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trust but Verify

For those that don't recognize the title, "Trust but verify" was popularized by Reagan[1], which in turn was an adaptation of a Russian proverb.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify

yetanotherphd on Jan 12, 2014 [–]

I think "don't trust" is a more accurate expression of what people really mean, but it has less of a ring to it.

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