Catherine Jinks quotes

“Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.”
-- Catherine Jinks

Source : Catherine Jinks (2008). “Evil Genius”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“What ever you do-Don't get caught.”
-- Catherine Jinks

Source : Catherine Jinks (2008). “Evil Genius”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!”
-- Catherine Jinks

Source : Catherine Jinks (2008). “Evil Genius”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but he loved me too. In his own way. He couldn't help it; not after raising me for all those years." When no one responded – when he saw nothing but expressions of disbelief on the faces around him – Cadel wailed, "He did! He did! I know he did! He only wanted to wreck my life because he wasn't a part of it!" And as sympathetic hands reached out towards him from every corner of the car, Cadel began to cry like someone whose heart was breaking.”
-- Catherine Jinks

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“I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.”
-- Catherine Jinks

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“In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.”
-- Catherine Jinks

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“The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.”

Source : 'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'

“Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”

Source : Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.”

“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.”

“The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.”

“What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.”

“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”

“The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.”