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“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.”

“The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.”

Ifs May Hard Simple Security Ought Banking Bankers Short Notice

Book:Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

Source: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

“Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."”

People Children I Can Two Sometimes Asks Stuff New York Planes Ask Me Vacation Short Notice

Author:Victoria Chang

“What about a Princess Bride?" "Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?”

Men Six Princess Brides Princess Bride Short Notice

Author:Ally Carter

“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.”

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!”

Given Memories Handy Rant Photographic Memory Short Notice

Author:John C. McGinley