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• The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Mistake, Mean, Frustration

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• The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Party, Men, May

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• The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

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• If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

  Keira Knightley

  Atheist, Sound, Asking For Forgiveness

  Interview with David Cronenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Clever, Self, Way

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• I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Husband, Blame, Unhappiness

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• You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Children, Flower

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• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

  Jessica Lange

  Family, Children, My Children

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• There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

  Jude Law

  Jealousy, Regret, Believe

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• I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

  Monica Lewinsky

  Mean, Responsibility, Kind

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• It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

  James Lovelock

  Christian, Religious, Winning

  "James Lovelock: The UK should be going mad for fracking". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Should Have, Class

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• I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

  John Mayer

  Disappointment, Punishment, Dating

  "John Mayer Just Has to Please the Girls". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2009.

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• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

  Josh McDowell

  Pain, Loneliness, Perfect

  Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.69, Baker Books

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• I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

  Joyce Meyer

  Years, Facts, Feels Right

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• When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Mistake, Moving

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• Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Letting Go, Humor

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• What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

  Moby

  People, Relax, Able

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• I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

  Emily Mortimer

  Mean, Secret, Fabric

  "Emily Mortimer: 'Secrets are a part of all of our lives'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2010.

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• It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Mistake

  "Joel Osteen on Power of Prayer, Forgiveness, Trusting in God's Timetable". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

  James Otis

  Thinking, Names, Soul

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• In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

  Gilbert Parker

  Beautiful, Mean, Mind

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• The only shame is to have none.

  Blaise Pascal

  Shame

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.74, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

  Steven Pinker

  Intellectual, Western Culture, Modern

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