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• It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

  Tori Amos

  Betrayal, Emotional, Musician

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• It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Men, Justice

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• How can I tell the signals and the signs
  By which one heart another heart divines?
  How can I tell the many thousand ways
  By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Heart, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.242

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• Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Doors, Infidelity

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Dolley”, p.49, Bantam

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• The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Intellectual

  Tim LaHaye (1996). “Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations”, p.14, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Art, Passion, Thinking

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• A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

  Maureen Dowd

  Lasts, Source, Reporters

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• It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

  John Tillotson

  Long, Return, Action

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• Ecology is the new theology. Big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day Scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

  Michael Dowd

  Humanity, World, Way

  "Ecology Is the New Theology" by Michael Dowd, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.

  Demosthenes

  Fall, Gay, Should Have

  Demosthenes (1756). “All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...”, p.26

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• Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Warfare, Desert

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.159

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• We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

  Marissa Meyer

  Lying, Long, Giving

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• No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

  Alfred Bester

  Betrayal, Defense, Matter

  "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 12), 1957.

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• Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him

  Cassandra Clare

  Son, Voice, Laughing

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

  Thomas Paine

  Animal, Men, Use

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

  Simone Weil

  Opportunity, Civilization, Firsts

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• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  Arthur Ashe

  Failure, Inward, Losing

  Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

  Clara Schumann

  Yield, Demand, Conviction

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• When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Excellence, Literature

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.

  Frances Osborne

  Honesty, Eye, Guilt

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• Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Book, Beer, Names

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Law, Roots, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred -Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Play, People

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161

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• All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.
  Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Commitment, Heart, Ignorance

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 04, 2015

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• No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Our Lives

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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