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• I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Hate, People, Community

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 517, 2005.

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• It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Knowing, Dollars

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.79, Penguin

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• Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

  Margaret Cho

  Running, Keys, Childhood

  "It Gets Better: How I Overcame Childhood Bullying" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

  John Clare

  Shadow, Empty, Ends

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.379, Delphi Classics

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• The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Girl, Kids, Grandchildren

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1964). “The changing world: an editor's outlook”

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• It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on' partner - who may already be feeling insecure - to wonder what is wrong with him Many people have sex outside their primary relationships for reasons that have nothing to do with any inadequacy in their partner or in the relationship.

  Dossie Easton

  Sex, Insecure, People

  Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities”, Greenery Press (CA)

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, Boys, Feet

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Deceit, Found

  "The Idler: With Additional Essays".

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• If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.

  Anna Benson

  Husband, Cheated On, Imagine

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• So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

  Ransom Riggs

  Mother, One Day, Peculiar

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

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• Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000 an episode. When really I'm the one that's being cheated, because the writer's strike is keeping me from all the money that I could be making. I need to eat, too.

  Zach Braff

  People, Giving, Needs

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• Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it

  Mary Martin

  Thinking, Giving, Might

  mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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• If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Wages, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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• Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

  John Ashcroft

  Blessing, Opportunity, Scary

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• I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mother, Children, Giving

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• I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Nashville, Years

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• I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.

  Jason Bateman

  Kids, Technology, Iphone

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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• So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself.

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  Ram Dass

  Karma, Liars, Expectations

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• When you go to make a purchase, take a look at the product and ask yourself: 'am I being cheated?' If a product from a 'fast fashion' chain is falling apart before you've even bought it, it's not a deal. It's the fast-fashion company trying to get you to buy something that is quick on trend but slow on quality.

  Maxine

  Fashion, Fall, Trying

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• My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

  Judy Garland

  Play, Numbers, People

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• INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human
  beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated, or tricked. INNATE is always
  waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact
  you are in tune with the Infinite.

  B. J. Palmer

  Waiting, Tunes, Infinite

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• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Gold, Coins

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

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