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Principles are what you do when things are hard.

I know from painful experience that it's easier to forgive someone who has never promised you they have them than someone who has and then backpedals.

Even allowing for the fact that most such statements are aspirational more than descriptive, there are degrees where it transitions from not reaching your goals to straight up betrayal.



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