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• I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Money, Honesty

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.26, Modern Library

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• From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

  Max De Pree

  Perspective, Leader, Serious

  Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.27, Crown Business

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• I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

  Neil LaBute

  Men, Thinking, Crafts

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• Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.

  Thomas Powers

  Loyalty, Heart, World

  The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979).

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• The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

  Robert Graves

  Mother, Song, Spring

  Robert Graves (1955). “Collected poems, 1955”

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• We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Hate, Sadness

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• A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prejudice, Insult, Quotations

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• I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself

  Robert Zubrin

  Responsibility, Community, Mars

  Robert Zubrin (2012). “The Case For Mars”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
  The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
  'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy,
  We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

  William Wordsworth

  Blow, Men, Vacancy

  'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539

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• All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

  Bill Vaughan

  Lying, Commitment, Honor

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• Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

  Rose Macaulay

  Behavior, Standards, Revealing

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

  Edna O'Brien

  Jealousy, Self, Results

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• Betrayal, in all forms, is painful. It can make you go crazy. But we all have choices on how to deal with it. Do we just go away or stay?

  Anne Curtis

  Crazy, Choices, Going Away

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• Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

  Livy

  Trust, Integrity, Men

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• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Trust, Integrity, Hypocrisy

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

  Michael Josephson

  Trust, Integrity, Liars

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• In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Kings, Men, Errors

  'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131

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• There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.

  Wes Fesler

  Fall, Blessing, Hands

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• I must decide if you deserve to die.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Responsibility, Dies

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• Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Ideas, Ethics

  "Blood Ties: Thieves' World, Book 9". Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, 1986.

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• There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

  Fleur Adcock

  Sleep, Insomnia, Thinking

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Government, Media, September 11

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Wisdom, Advice, World

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weakness, Complaining, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.

  Bill Cosby

  Hurt, Pain, Lying

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