Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

About Harper Lee

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Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood...

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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're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

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 one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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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.

—Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird

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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

—Albert Einstein

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Facts are stupid things.

—Ronald Reagan

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

—Willa Cather

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