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Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. -- Robert Browning
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. -- John McCarthy
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins. -- Zygmunt Bauman
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. -- Roland Allen
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. -- George Tenet
The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts. The first, and most difficult, step is to absolve yourself and your spouse or partner of any guilt. -- Suze Orman
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want. -- Keith Olbermann
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt. -- Eddie Vedder
Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences. -- Tom DeLay
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me. -- Fidel Castro
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - -- Janette Turner Hospital
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him. -- Andy Garcia
Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt. -- Terry Goodkind
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. -- Camille Paglia
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt. -- Cindy Chupack
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice. -- Robert Browning
In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt. -- Shekhar Kapur
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. -- Emil Ruder
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist -- Dan Brown
Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy. -- Charles Kingsley
An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing. -- Steven Pinker
Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before?No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret. -- Ann Aguirre

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