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• I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

  Jimmy Carter

  Lying, Issues, Controversial

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• But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

  Colin Farrell

  Children, Jealous, Kids

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• I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

  Richard E. Grant

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Impossible

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• Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

  Michael Moorcock

  Real, Hero, Real Life

  Michael Moorcock (1984). “The opium general and other stories”

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• The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Desire, Fists, Resistance

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• Parents and children seldom act in concert:
  each child endeavors to appropriate
  the esteem or fondness of the parents,
  and the parents, with yet less temptation,
  betray each other to their children.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Parent, Temptation

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “Rasselas: A Tale”, p.78

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• The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Principles, Would Be

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• And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Wish, Ordinary

  "Obama’s Healthcare Horror". Salon Column, www.salon.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Do not betray the people.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  People

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• Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

  Edward Abbey

  Style, Technique, Sake

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Betrayal, Shapes

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.90

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• You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two must save the world. Help me." Judas bowed his head. After a moment he asked, "If you had to betray your master, would you do it?" Jesus reflected for a long time. Finally he said, "No, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to. That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task: to be crucified.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Brother, Jesus, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Blue, Self, Ideas

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• Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?

  Milan Kundera

  Country, Husband, Betrayal

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• Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

  Greg Koukl

  Reality, Trying, Deny

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• Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

  Channing Tatum

  Sometimes, Thongs

  "'Magic Mike' Star Matthew Mcconaughey: 'Trusting A Thong Is A Huge Leap Of Faith'". Interview with Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 24, 2012.

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• Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

  George Washington

  Real, War, Enmity

  George Washington (2008). “George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior: ...And Other Important Writings”, p.175, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Democracy, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.

  Sophie Scholl

  Mean, Heart, Islands

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• One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Power, Self, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 85, 1799.

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• The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

  James Madison

  Men, Hands, People

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.255

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Important, Encounters

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.673, Penguin

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• A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

  Joseph Cook

  Men, Expression, Lows

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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