"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

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Source : Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 19 Sept. 1777)

Samuel Johnson

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“Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?”
“I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.”
“While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.”
“I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that.”
“The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.”

Source : James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)
“I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.”

Source : "Actress Kelli Williams". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 12, 2010.
“In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of ï¬‚ukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.”
“Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.”

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