“Friday. Five o'clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to move unobserved through a city. Or, maybe the easiest. Because at five o'clock on a Friday nobody pays attention to anything. Except the road ahead.”
One Shot, Ch. 1 (2005).
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“Hartenstraat - 1 o'clock in the afternoon - the flags throw shadow on the houses”
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Fred Metcalf, The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1987).

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Pt. 1, 8
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
Context: Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

“…. maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.”
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot