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" Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 7
by James Boswell - 1821
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Development: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Volume 3

Stuart Corbridge - Business & Economics - 2000 - 400 pages
...bring a nation to its collective senses is the aggregate version of an insight due to Samuel Johnson: '[W]hen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight. it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The quip seems to apply with equal force to nations in severe crisis. as some of the key cases of radical...
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You're Going to Do What?: The Memoir of Dr. W. Gifford-Jones

W. Gifford-Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 278 pages
...are hellish. But without them writers would never get anything done. As Samuel Johnson once remarked, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." And, recently, I nearly got hanged. In the early morning of Sunday, April 26, 1998, the birds were...
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The Tide of Victory

Eric Flint, David Drake - Fiction - 2001 - 321 pages
...told me about in the future that would have been, who made so many fine quips. Dr. Samuel Johnson. "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Chapter 23 THE DECCAN Autumn, 533 AD Rana Sanga kept his eyes firmly fixed on the ivory half-throne...
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Game, Set, Match: Winning the Negotiations Game

Henry S. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2001 - 384 pages
...but not quite as pressing as in the final end game stage. 28O CHAPTER 1 2 THE MID-NEGOTIATION PROCESS "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." [Dr. Samuel Johnson] Time, along with power and information, are the three key elements in any negotiation....
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Korea's Future and The Great Powers

Nick Eberstadt, Richard J Ellings - History - 2001 - 380 pages
...ofSanwelJohnson, cited from a letter from Johnson to Boswcll dated September 19, 1777. The precise quote is: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." 2. The examples of East Germany and Russia suggest that communist-era assets, when turned loose in...
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Rescuing Jeffrey: A Memoir

Richard Galli - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 212 pages
...small flake alone — delicate and innocent. But a group — hell bent, JEFFREY GALLI, DECEMBER 1997 Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — SAMUEL JOHNSON, FROM JAMES BOSWELL, LIFE OF JOHNSON Prologue I BELIEVE IN A WORLD OF CHANCE, OF...
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Foreign Policy for America in the Twenty-first Century: Alternative ...

Thomas H. Henriksen - Political Science - 2001 - 172 pages
...endangered species. Dr. Samuel Johnson provided a reason more than two hundred years ago: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." There was plenty to concentrate the American mind in 1940-41, with the result that we had a grand strategy...
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Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Walter Laqueur - Germany - 2001 - 402 pages
...fifty. Neither of these people had any experience evading the security organs but, as Dr. Johnson said, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Through German contacts they got advice on where and how to escape. Private Enterprise or Stories of...
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The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture

David E. Shi - History - 2001 - 354 pages
...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...
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Presidential Disability: Papers, Discussions, and Recommendations on the ...

James F. Toole, Robert J. Joynt - Law - 2001 - 620 pages
...conference one day, and he suddenly begins to behave in a manifestly loopy fashion. As Dr. Johnson said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."* By the same token, an incident of that kind, drawing attention to the hazards of presidential dementia,...
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