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“Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: accomplish, act, carry-out, commitment, devoted, die, disloyal, dying-love, execute, fade-away, forever-love, inconstant, keep, keep-from, love, neglect, obligated, sworn, tied, true-to-the-end, unconditional-love, unfaithful, vgiven-over-to, wait, wholehearted

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“On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.”
― Marcia Sirota

tags: abuse, alienation, child-abuse, childhood-abuse, denial, deny, family-secrets, forbidden, hidden, incest, neglect, parenting, pretend, reality, secret

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“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”
― Al David

tags: liars, lies, lying, power-of-words, truth

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“Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, honest, honesty, hypocrite, hypocrites, liars, straightforwardness, truth

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“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
― Socrates

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