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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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  When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fighting, Exercise, Government

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Betrayal, Allowance

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

  Ruth Wilson

  Religious, Believe, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Keeping Secrets

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Responsibility, People, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Talent, Hiding, Persons

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• Can it be chat modesty may more betray
  Our sense than woman's lightness?

  William Shakespeare

  May, Modesty, Lightness

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• The present necessarily betrays the past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past

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• The rich will always betray the poor.

  Henry Joy McCracken

  Revolutionary, Rich, Poor

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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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• Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

  Laurence Sterne

  Blessing, Doors, Law

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.513

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• Let the dry eyes perceive
  Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
  By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Eye, Loss

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

  Pierre Corneille

  Betrayal, Hate, Rome

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• Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Notebook, Hate

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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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• A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, League, No Friends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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