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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.

Harper Lee

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Education Learning Writing Yourself
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Action Character Determination Dimension Novel Story
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Beginning Cleaning End Faith Prejudice Reason

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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