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• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  Ovid

  Guilt, Looks, Betrayed

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• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  Vicente Fox

  Change, Betrayed, Accomplished

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• Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

  Sidney Hook

  Cost, Hook, Alive

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Ambition, Pride

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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• How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Men, Soul, Suffering

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann

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• President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  America, People, Profound

  "Florida's Cuban Americans Rejoice At U.S. Policy Overhaul" by Zachary Fagenson and David Adams, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

  Cameron Diaz

  Gone, Kind, Members

  "Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Talk THE OTHER WOMAN, Their Chemistry on Set, the Rating, and More". collider.com. April 22, 2014.

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• A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Thinking, People, Greed

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• Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

  Simone Weil

  Brother, Military, Police

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• It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

  Rachel Caine

  Hurt, Enemy, Myrnin

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.80, Allison & Busby

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• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Keeping Promises, Deception

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.

  Lloyd deMause

  Children, Moving, Expression

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• This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Legacy, Dresses, Reunion

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• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Unrequited Love, Memorable

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• Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

  Francis Beaumont

  Hurt, Love Is, Greatest Love

  The Maid's Tragedy act 5 (written 1610 - 1611). Coauthored with John Fletcher.

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• Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.

  Greg Behrendt

  Cheating, Betrayal Of Trust

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.

  Corey Flintoff

  Revenge, Turkeys, Language

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Saws, Firsts

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• Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.

  Anna Kavan

  Love, Blood, Enemy

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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Men, Mind, Body

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• Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Loneliness, Home, Smell

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• Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

  Les Parrott

  Backstabbers, Wrong Person, Wrong Time

  Les Parrott (1996). “High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Mistake

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