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  1. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount.
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  2. Bill Watterson _ The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

    Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse."
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  3. Michael Connelly _ The Gods of Guilt

    You're an asshole, you know that, Haller?"I nodded and headed back to the door."When I need to be.
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  4. Michael Connelly _ The Lincoln Lawyer

    You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty."Levin nodded thoughtfully."The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients," I said. "I'm not sure I do, either."
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  5. Michael Connelly _ The Lincoln Lawyer

    Well, did he do it?"She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.
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  6. Michael Connelly _ The Lincoln Lawyer

    "J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.
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  7. Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal

    Shaken by emotional storms, I realized that choosing to feel guilt, however painful, somehow seemed to offer reassurance that such events did not happen at random.... If guilt is the price we pay for the illusion that we have some control over nature, many of us are willing to pay it. I was. To begin to release the weight of guilt, I had to let go of whatever illusion of control it pretended to offer, and acknowledge that pain and death are as natural as birth, woven inseparably into our human nature.
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  8. Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal

    Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death--even when we've done everything possible to prevent it? Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists observe; no doubt that's one reason why people still tell the story of Adam and Eve, which interprets suffering that way.
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  9. Stormie Omartian _ The Power of a Praying Parent

    If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!
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  10. Voltaire _ Zadig et autres contes

    It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
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  11. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    Most people are not naturally reflective any more than they are naturally malicious, and the white man prefers to keep the black man at a certain human remove because it is easier for him thus to preserve his simplicity and avoid being called to account for crimes committed by his forefathers, or his neighbors.
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  12. Blake Nelson _ Paranoid Park

    But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.
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