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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
"Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind."
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
"The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go."
"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
"Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on."
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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."
"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."
"But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent."
"Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people's breath in the air. There was even something to look forward to when school started - renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Fall was hot-supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it."
"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."
"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.....Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, don't nest in corncribs,they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming."
"Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."
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