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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.
I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.