"I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans."
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"I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation."
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"I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am."
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"There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family."
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"The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart."
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"There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull."
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"Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess"
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"There's dozens of unrelated policy provisions tucked inside of it. I'll give you a sense of a handful of them. One is a visa waiver program change. It's going to make it harder for people who've traveled to places with terrorist activity to get into the U.S. They're going to have to go through an added layer of security."
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"One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus."
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"One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones."
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"It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats."
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"Foolish tongues talke by the dozen."
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"There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process."
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"Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory."
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"If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!"
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"A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation."
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"Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism."
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"My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb."
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"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."
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"If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen."
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