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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Sometimes it is better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I wanted you to see something about her. 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 are licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
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Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, don't nest in corn cribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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"Atticus, he was real nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let them get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.
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Watch carefully the magic that occurs, when you give a person just enough comfort to be themselves.
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"There's too much risk in loving." , the young boy said.
"No.", said the old man.
"There's too much risk in not."
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.
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You see, they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
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If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they are all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky in the hand of another.
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I worry there is something broken in our generation; there are so many sad eyes on happy faces.
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When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs, he will become curious and emerge.
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A court is only sound as its jury. And a jury is only as sound as the men who make it.
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There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talent.
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It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways.
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I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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You don't have to learn much out of books, it is like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk one.
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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
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Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
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