"The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it."

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Source : Love a la Mode act 2, sc. 1 (1759)

Charles Macklin

#Law Quotes #Justice Quotes #Pockets Quotes

“I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.”
“When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.”
“I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.”

Source : "My Style: Kierston Wareing". Interview with James Sherwood, www.independent.co.uk. August 30, 2008.
“I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit.”
“Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.”
“I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.”

Source : "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.”
“When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.”

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