"Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus.""

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John Richard Green

#People Quotes #Nicknames Quotes #Hocus Pocus Quotes

“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.”
“Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.”
“You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.”
“A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.”
“Leadership doesn't come from age.”
“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”
“Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.
“Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.”

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