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“The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.”

Years Stills Hard Law Three Names Truth Is Ten Pushing Brushes Accused Push Yourself Tainted Hunk

Author:Jude Law

“A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.”

Way Giving Two Self Facts Problem Law Process Friendship Strange Truth Is Overcoming Difficulty Handle Subtle Better Than You Strengthening Self Giving

Book:The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking

Source: The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking

“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.”

Ideas Truth Law Heard Truth Is Secular Bad Ideas Idiotic Free Thought

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.”

World Humans Law Human Nature Terrible Truth Is Brutality

Book:The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel

Source: The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel

“In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.”

“Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.”

People Ifs Believe Law Results Successful Truth Is Direct Making Money Proportion Lots Of Money Backwards

Author:Earl Nightingale

“The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.”

Law Truth Is Court Irrelevant Sad Truth

Book:Tell Me No Secrets: A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller

Source: Tell Me No Secrets: A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller

“I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.”