...could be sued personally. This had an effect similar to that described by Dr. Samuel Johnson, who said, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Meanwhile the judges on the bench of the Tenth Circuit in Denver, after reconsidering the Adarand case,...

...numbers has had a surprising impact on heirs and benefactors. As Samuel Johnson once wrote: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."20 Not that a hanging is in store, but the reality of planned responsibility (as a steward...

...public's considerable investment in science by quoting Samuel Johnson in a threatening tone: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Today there is enormous pressure on scientists to do research that is useful, to predict El Nino for...

...what we might call the Dr. Samuel Johnson Test: "Depend on it, Sir," the great man once commented, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."* Despite a significantly altered strategic landscape, dangers before December 7, 1941, were not convincingly...

...of change of heart. Here the picture is quite different. "Depend upon it, Sir," said Samuel lohnson, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."1 Indeed there may be many criminals for whom nothing else concentrates the mind enough....

...contained a great deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his, Dr Johnson responded, 'Why should you think so? Depend upon it Sir, when...be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully'.7 All the soldiers writing hoped that their life would contribute to making the world...

...quotation of the most quoted man (besides Shakespeare) in English literature, Doctor Johnson, reads: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." (Watch the movie Dead Man Walking with this point in mind, and you may see a serious argument for capital...

...solutions, where available, are not necessarily desirable. The epigraph (Samuel Johnson's famous dictum that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully") suggests that the fact of death should focus our minds on how to live. The dogged pursuit of insoluble...

...le lecteur français de culture moyenne peut comprendre immédiatement. Si on lit, en revanche, "... when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," vous ne saurez peut-être pas que c'est une citation, célèbre en Angleterre, de Samuel Johnson. Vous...

...Boswell, what Johnson said, with reference to the unusually vigorous writing of a condemned forger, was "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Verdict: Credit Samuel Johnson for the thought, and his version of the words. "CONSISTENCY is the hobgoblin...