"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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Source : "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

Harper Lee

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“If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.”
“We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.”

Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (2010). “The Imperialist”, p.306, New Canadian Library
“Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.”
“My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.”
“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.”
“I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.”
“For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.”
“I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.”

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