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• If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Nice, Believe

  "Scientists divided over alliance with religion" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2007.

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• Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

  Joe Frank

  Causes, Harm, Enormous

  Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.

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• We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.

  Prince Ea

  Save Nature

  "This Video Will Turn Even The Biggest Cynic Into A Tree-Hugger" by Kimberly Yam, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2015.

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• If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.

  Donald Davidson

  Views, Plot, Common

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press

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• Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

  Walter Benjamin

  Self, Order, World

  Walter Benjamin (1977). “The origin of German tragic drama”, New Left Books

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• Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

  Angela Carter

  Taken, Cat, Acceptance

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Groups

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• Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

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• I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Views, Traitor

  Remarks By George Bush at the Dedication Ceremony, www.cia.gov. April 26, 1999.

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• Fear betrays unworthy souls.

  Virgil

  Fear, Soul, Unworthy

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• Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Block

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.28, Penguin

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• Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Heart, Order, People

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Loyalty, Religious

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Vow, Indecision

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Balance, Want, Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets.

  Kate Hudson

  Secret, Reason, Feels

  "Glamour's April 2013 Cover Star, Kate Hudson, Bares All: "I Don't Keep Any Secrets"". Interview with Mira Nair, www.glamour.com. March 5, 2013.

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• All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

  Woody Allen

  Men, World, Want

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.

  Prince Ea

  Home, Heart, Gay

  "Dear future generations: Sorry". Prince Ea's video address to the people about mitigating climate change on Earth Day, www.globalcitizen.org. April 22, 2015.

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• The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Hands, Guilt

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Deceit, Loyal, Want

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.603, Stanford University Press

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• Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Thinking, Spirit

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Order, World

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  People, Economy, Excellent

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• Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

  Philip Sidney

  Vain, Profanity, Speakers

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