...optimism in each century, particularly the twentieth. 5. 3. 6 JOHNSON, WIZARD OF WORDS Depend upon it, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors; whether I shall add anything by my own writings...

...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...

...life, drawn from all the death which it has wrought. Victor Hugo, Les Miserable*, i, 4 ( 1 862) is When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson, in Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (19 September 1777) iv It is far more ignominious...

...sir," said Samuel Johnson, the famous eighteenthcentury developer of the first English dictionary, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." For anything short of a hanging, however, most of us are pretty good at denial. We prefer to ignore...

...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...

...aroused an unwonted attention to the immemorial problem of human liberty." According to Dr. Johnson, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The prospect of Hitler's imminent victory concentrated Becker's mind in 1941 in a way that it had not...

...compelling enough, you will not solve your problem. Motivation precedes resolution. Re-size the Problem "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. " -SAMUEL JOHNSON If you have not created sufficient motivation to solve your problem, it may be too...

...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...

...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...

...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...