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• We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Blood, Genealogy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

  David Horowitz

  America, Police, Allies

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• There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle.Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Struggle, Enemy, Victory

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• I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

  Antony Gormley

  Thinking, People, Way

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• The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

  Robyn

  Mean, Keeping Quiet, Safe

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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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• 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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• 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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• Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins.

  Alison Croggon

  Hurt, Love Is, Long

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• Aren’t you afraid one of them will betray you? Take it all away? (Shahara) I’m sure one will eventually, but that’s the least of what keeps me up at night. Trust me, there are a lot worse things in life than loosing a few credits. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Things In Life, Credit

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.730, Macmillan

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• The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

  Gregory Maguire

  Accessories, World, Traveler

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.73, Harper Collins

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• Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Absent, Pathetic

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• If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.

  Rahman Baba

  Voice, Hunters, Moments

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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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• 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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• When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Blessed, Doors

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• The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

  Jack London

  Couple, Men, Glasses

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.212, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Ignorance, Views, Claims

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hurt, Judging, Judgement

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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