Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Harper Lee in To Kill A Mockingbird
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

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