"guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders"
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"All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt."
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"Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him."
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"Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher."
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"I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive."
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"Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends."
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"Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt."
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"A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt."
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"A land of levity is a land of guilt."
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"I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children."
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"whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off"
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"We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt."
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"One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear."
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"Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power."
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"Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us."
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"There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones."
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"If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice."
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"I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits."
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"sorrow is easier than guilt."
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"A good person will feel guilty even before a dog."
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