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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 - Stran 571
avtor: James Boswell - 1817
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The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine: The Dying Mind

Sandy Macleod - 2007 - 180 strani
...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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Effective Foundation Management: 14 Challenges of Philanthropic Leadership ...

Joel J. Orosz - 2007 - 198 strani
...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,...
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Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond

David Gessner - 2007 - 322 strani
...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...
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The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture

David E. Shi - 2007 - 346 strani
...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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Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs

Joseph Gibbs - 2007 - 244 strani
...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...
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Looking for Hamlet

Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 strani
...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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Commonsense Direct & Digital Marketing

Drayton Bird - 2007 - 452 strani
...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....
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The Language of Silence - Volume 2

George Schloss - 2008 - 405 strani
...be sentenced to our explorations for another three or four centuries. Letter 46 - September 1, 2005 "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." So said Dr. Johnson. And so say we all (or a reasonable facsimile thereof), when "faced", as I've been...
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Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia

Robert Manne - 2008 - 306 strani
...this problem, but it would be a step forward. WAR ON TERROR Martin Krygier According to Dr Johnson, 'when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' Wondering whether you might be attacked by terrorists seems to have similar, if not always wonderful,...
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