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“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
William Shakespeare
“There's a sucker born every minute”
P.T. Barnum
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer”
Will Rogers
“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.”
Monty Python
“It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil”
Hannah Arendt
“There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.”
David Letterman
“Any minute, any day, some players may break a long standing record. That's one of the fascinations about the game, the unexpected surprises.”
Connie Mack
“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes”
Jan Masaryk
