Meek Mill
Rapper
"I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been."
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Betrayed
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Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal."
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"Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach."
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"All a man can betray is his conscience."
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"All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself"
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"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all."
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"Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed."
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"In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed."
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"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."
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"Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have."
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"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
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"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."
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"There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us."
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"If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault."
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"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."
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"One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool."
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"To love without criticism is to be betrayed."
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"I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity."
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"As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated."
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"If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation."
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"Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees."
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"Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed."
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