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«Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.»
Author: Eric Alterman
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«A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.»
«A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.»
«And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.»
«Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? / The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.»
«And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.»
«Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.»
«ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute»
«Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.»
«Good men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past»
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