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• I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds me, that sets me off all hot and guilty and scared and rambling and wistful, like I am now.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Hot, Rambling

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Female, Legs

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

  J. I. Packer

  Grace, Merit, God Is Love

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.196, InterVarsity Press

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• Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Anger, Trying, Way

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• I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Drug, Police

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• Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears:
  Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, my name is written on His hands.

  Charles Wesley

  Sacrifice, Hands, Names

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.1034, Ravenio Books

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• Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty

  Lionel

  Gentleman, Innocent, Prove

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• The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

  Hamid Karzai

  Running, Forever, Criminals

  "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?

  John Powell

  Beautiful, Attitude, Heart

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• I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

  Ian McShane

  Men, Thinking, Innocent Man

  "Why the Deadwood Guy Doesn't Care if NBC's Kings Makes Him More Famous". Interview with Jake Halpern, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2009.

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• The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Children, Party

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• Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Blood, Hands, Judging

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.38, Penguin

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• You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

  Peter De Vries

  Real, Issues, Drawing

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• I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

  Walker Percy

  Eye, Apology, Thinking

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Military, Fall

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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• If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

  Judith Viorst

  People, Ambitious, May

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Guilt

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• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Guilt, Bars

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• As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Vanity, Vices

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.939, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• The human is the only guilty animal.

  John Steinbeck

  Animal, Humanity, Humans

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.237, Penguin

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• I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Spiritual, War, Believe

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

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• Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.

  Emperor Norton

  San Francisco, Twenties, Bay Area

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• All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

  Jean Anouilh

  Names, Ideas, Innocence

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Guilt, Wells, Unfortunate

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.183, Lettere Animate Editore

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