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"Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to."
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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."

"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."

"We often know information but not the epistemology of that information."

"Failure is the school of greatness."

"We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher."

"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."

"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
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"Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen."

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions."

"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."

"Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience."
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