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“I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.”

I Can Cooks Chocolate Sauce Flour Spicy Caramel Hazelnuts Torts

Author:Anna Kendrick

“Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.”

Individual Mass Torts

Author:Boris Vian

“We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.”

Action Promise Connections Regard Contracts Assault Breach Defamation Torts

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.”

Mean Said Mother Courses Prove My Friends Torts

Author:Scott Turow

“There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.”

Can Do Chance Numbers Support Risk Policy Products Easier Entrepreneur Reform Take A Chance Prudent Public Policy New Business New Products Torts

Author:Eric Ries

“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”

Feels Art Enough Father Good Enough Our Father Not Good Enough Torts

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)

“America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.”

World Care America Used Numbers Pay Practice Cost Ethics Doctors Medicine Population Lawyer Health Care Health Care Costs Malpractice Torts Legal Ethics

Author:Richard Lamm

“The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.”

Today Political Culture Causes Effects Media Politician Lawyer Celebration Complaints Cause And Effect Cultivation Victimhood Torts

Book:One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!”

Humans Hours Power Daughter Rings Breasts Iron Gray Relentless Scourge Torts

Book:The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford

Source: The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford

“Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are.”

Littles Today Politics Interest Groups Unions Democrat Lawyer Clever Collections Minorities Establishment Nasty Perks Tenacious Interest Groups Torts

Author:Robert L. Bartley

“The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.”

Cases Cost Taxes Add Lawyer Injury Employee Greedy Torts

Author:Dennis Hastert

“If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.”

Ifs Looks Kind Whole Helping Term Cost Creating Saving Reform Look At Me Incentives Savings Reducing Medicare Torts Reimbursement

Author:John Hoeven