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• Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.

  Jack McDevitt

  Lying, Thinking, Civilization

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• To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Passion, Reality

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding faith involved betraying it with a kiss?

  Peter Rollins

  Christian, Kissing, What If

  Peter, Rollins (2006). “How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church”, p.96, Paraclete Press

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• Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Strong, War

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• ....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Citizens, Politics

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• The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Imagination, Fancy

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"

  Sasa Stanisic

  Past, Reality, Games

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Leader, Today

  " Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote" by Anushka Asthana, Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2016.

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• How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.

  Chris Christie

  Brother, Justice, Safety

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• The political nonsense of network television and the culture of a set and all the problems that that can create, I can take. I can't take betraying the truth of what I'm doing. It cuts to the absolute core of everything that I do in the craft, in this world that I live in.

  Richard Schiff

  Cutting, Political, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

  George Henry Borrow

  Englishmen, Countenance, Knows

  George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.19

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• Donald Trump is betraying everything that made America great: tolerance, democratic institutions and respect for the individual. In that sense, Trump is the most un-American U.S. president that the country has had in a long time.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Long, Tolerance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

  Novalis

  Lying, Sacrifice, Men

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.29, SUNY Press

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• The rich will always betray the poor.

  Henry Joy McCracken

  Revolutionary, Rich, Poor

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• I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.

  Chamath Palihapitiya

  Important, Building, Employee

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I hope that the economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba will be lifted, so that the economy can grow and wages can rise. But I also hope that we will not compromise our independence and become weak, and that we will never betray our ideals of equality and social justice. This is what our parents fought for, and we owe it to them.

  Mariela Castro

  Justice, Parent, Independence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Trying, Moments

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• The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Justice, Imagination

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• I think the folks who joined Jim Jones's church did so because they truly believed in his stated ideals of racial equality and social justice. That's why he was able to convince one thousand of them to immigrate to the jungle of Guyana. Although history has stigmatized Jonestown residents as the people who "drank the Kool-aid," I'd argue that they were noble idealists. Furthermore, they were murdered. They didn't willingly drink poison - they were forced to do so at gunpoint. They sought the ideal, only to have their leader horribly betray them.

  Julia Scheeres

  Thinking, Justice, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

  Matthias Platzeck

  Betrayal, Past, Reality

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• We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

  Learned Hand

  Life, Inspire, Scene

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Betrayal, Allowance

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• The majority of individuals view their surroundings with a minimal amount of observational effort. They are unaware of the rich tapestry of details that surrounds them, such as the subtle movement of a person's hand or foot that might betray his thoughts or intentions.

  Joe Navarro

  Views, Hands, Feet

  Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins (2009). “What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We are being Americans when we hold our government to account. We are being false to our troops when we send them to a needless war, betraying their trust when we shortchange them on protective equipment, and cheating them when we silently cut their benefits.

  John F. Kerry

  Cheating, War, Cutting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children.

  Alice Walker

  Children, War, Caring

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