"If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about."
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"Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?"
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"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world"
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"The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power."
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"Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim."
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"Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it."
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"Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past"
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"Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp."
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"I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt."
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"I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society."
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"Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt"
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"Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again."
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"There may be guilt when there is too much virtue."
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"You feign guilt in order to justify yourself."
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"Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt."
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"Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge."
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"Nobody becomes guilty by fate."
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"We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it."
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"There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war."
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"To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed."
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