“It's only for a week so have no fear!
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!”
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
"National Brotherhood Week", closing stanza
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
“Fear lasted a week, anger a year and resentment a lifetime.”
Source: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 17 “Departures” (p. 305)
Context: On this purely practical issue he judged massacre wasteful and even contrary as a method of control.
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