| Kenneth G. C. Newport, Crawford Gribben - 2006 - 327 Seiten
...China 1840-1854; Nazi Germany, 1933-1945), or more lastingly (Ming and Maoist China, Soviet Russia). 56 "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully . . .," Samuel Johnson, quoted by J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. GB Hill, revised by LF Powell, iii,... | |
| Sandy Macleod - 2007 - 180 Seiten
...anticipate medication-responsive depression is fundamentally what needs to be determined. Prevalence Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1 784) 14 The current (1 month) prevalence of major depression in national epidemiological... | |
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...need to heal hurts that only mortals feel. - Vasantha Surya, "A Word Between Us" 20. Concentration Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson, (Boswell's Life of Johnson) The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable... | |
| Joel J. Orosz - 2007 - 198 Seiten
...DISCIPLINE: FOUNDATION FREEDOM: BLESSING OR CURSE? Samuel Johnson memorably wrote, "Be dependent on it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Foundation leaders, however, know that they are unlikely ever to be hanged, literally or even figuratively,... | |
| David Gessner - 2007 - 322 Seiten
...For once Roosevelt's always restless energies were concentrated fully. Samuel Johnson said famously, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." So too charging into gunfire. Would Roosevelt's mind ever again be so wonderfully concentrated? Would... | |
| David E. Shi - 2007 - 346 Seiten
...permanent limits to American economic growth and standards of living. As England's Dr. Johnson once said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The energy crisis certainly caught the attention of the American public. That the postwar era of cheap... | |
| Drayton Bird - 2007 - 452 Seiten
...has no other justification worth mentioning.' Raymond Rubicam Founder, Young & Rubicam Advertising 'When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ' Dr Johnson In 1 957 my situation was bleak. I was making £7.00 a week editing a small trade journal.... | |
| Joseph Gibbs - 2007 - 244 Seiten
...1 New York press — seem contradictory or incoherent, belying Samuel Johnson's famous remark that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Hopson began their March 23 session by telling the prisoner that "I expected all he had told me could... | |
| Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 Seiten
...extraordinary circumstance confers a special importance on this choice. Samuel Johnson famously remarked that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." What was Ferrers looking for in Hamlet? Perhaps he found a connection between his own circumstance... | |
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...your brethren. Eventually, each one of us must walk alone with God. "Depend upon it, sir, when a roan knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," said Samuel Johnson. When trials come, when our life seems to be about over, it is time to walk alone... | |
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