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• The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Rejection, Arrogance, Worship

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

  Annie Dillard

  World, Not Afraid, Chosen

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Sleep, Dragons

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.

  Cornel West

  Country, Men, America

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Mar 24, 2010

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• One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

  Mary Balogh

  Love, Inspirational, One Day

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• Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.

  Wole Soyinka

  Children, Reading, School

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• What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fighting, Should Have, Evil

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• I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex

  Sarah J. Maas

  Sex, Hate, Men

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “The Assassin and the Empire: A Throne of Glass Novella”, p.75, A&C Black

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• If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Want, Pleasure, Drains

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• If you want to serve the age, betray it.

  Brendan Kennelly

  Age, Want, Ifs

  "The Book of Judas". Book by Brendan Kennelly, 1991.

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• Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

  Frank Herbert

  Tone, Comedy, Psychological

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.431, Penguin

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• You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

  Patricia Hampl

  Self, Secret, Trying

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• You’re not the only one who’s loyal and decent, Ture. It’s why I won’t betray Darling. He wouldn’t betray me and I know it. When someone really loves you, they find a way to get to you, even in the darkest night, against all odds. Through the worst nightmares, they are there, holding your hand. They’re there to stand with you to the end. I don’t just believe that. I know it. - Zarya Starska

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Believe, Night

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• Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Color

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• Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

  Sara Gruen

  Betrayal, Mind, Body

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, 26 May 2006.

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• You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Mean, Scary

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• Some of you will stay with me forever, but some of you ... WILL BETRAY ME.

  Lady Gaga

  Forever, Stay With Me, Stay With Me Forever

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• In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Vision, Trials

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

  Chris Avellone

  Fate, Army, Hands

  "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

  David Whyte

  Reality, Identity, Weakness

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• But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Heart, Government, Attachment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.306, Coventry House Publishing

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• Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

  Euripides

  Believe, Mad, Awareness

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• There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.

  Daniel Abraham

  Enemy, Way

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cheating, Thinking, Done

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• There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Despair, Compromise, Easy

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