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• Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Secret, May, Sacred

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.95, Macmillan

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• I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Song, Dark, Cities

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press

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• It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.

  Camille Paglia

  Letting Go, Attitude, Reading

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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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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• These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Military, Struggle, Law

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• Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

  L. Neil Smith

  Giving Up, Government, Law

  "Ceres". Book by L. Neil Smith, 2009.

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• The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.

  Sarah Helen Whitman

  Home, Wind, Shy

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• Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Passion, Justice, Failing

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• Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

  Horace

  Wine, Wrath, Secret

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• Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Men, Medicine

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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• Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mean, Feet, Answers

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• Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

  Joseph Addison

  Pride, Men, Arrogance

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• My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

  Richard Dawkins

  Country, Honesty, Islam

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Attitude, My Attitude, Exaggerated

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hurt, Kids, Night

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• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Parenting

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• For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.

  Catherine Brady

  Desire, Body, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Way, Failing, Translate

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012..

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• Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

  Simone Schwarz-Bart

  Strong Women, Betrayal, Smart

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• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Anger, Men

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• Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Gold, Facts

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.367, Applewood Books

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• Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

  Henry Fielding

  Gambling, Luxury, Temptation

  Henry Fielding (1988). “An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings”, p.92, Wesleyan University Press

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