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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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• 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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• A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

  Hannah More

  Envy, Spirit, Cold

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.38

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

  Joseph Cook

  Men, Expression, Lows

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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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• Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

  Winifred Holtby

  Time, Enemy

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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• To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Mother, Ignorance, Responsibility

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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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• 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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• The hand betrays the heart.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Heart, Hands

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Temptation, Sacred

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Chess, Conservative

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.

  Edward Bellamy

  Real, Men, Expression

  "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 4, 1880.

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• The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Confused, Historical, Employment

  "Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics". Book by Andrew Light, 1997.

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