"The best interpreter of the law is custom."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Philosophical Quotes #Law Quotes #Interpreter Quotes

“We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?”

Source : Bobby Seale (1978). “A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale”, Crown
“If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.”
“I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”
“Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake there subsists that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers.”
“The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.”
“The right-hander is throwing up in the bullpen.”
“There is no back label with a story on a beer can.”
“In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.”

Source : Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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