Prince Ea
Activist, Filmmaker, Musician
"We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us."
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Betray
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other."
Virgil
Poet
"Fear betrays unworthy souls."
Aesop
Fabulist
"A false tale often betrays itself."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."
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"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."
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"It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat."
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"Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!"
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"The fearful face usually betrays great guilt."
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"There's nothing worse than betraying yourself."
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"In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations."
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"When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied."
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"Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company."
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"I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you."
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"For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions."
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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."
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"Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?"
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"Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades."
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"Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it."
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"Could we betray our parents by going back to them?"
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"Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us."
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"A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes."
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"My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character."
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"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place."
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"If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that."
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