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“Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.”

People Men Reason Law Certain Known Five Economic Produce Solitude Six Exciting Absolutes Liberalism Dozen Making Love Erotic Masturbation

Book:Whatever: A Novel

Source: Whatever: A Novel

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.”

“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.”

“If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?”

Ifs Knows Government Today Chance Levels Cities Sea Protect Climate Intense Posts Rising Dozen New Orleans Hurricanes Coastal

Book:Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

“Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.”

World Half Known Genius Dozen Overused

Author:Fritz Kreisler

“Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.”

People Culture Community Creation Scripture Dozen God's Creation

Book:A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian

Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian

“You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.”

Knows School Names Plans Doors Students Months Empowerment Letters Lifetime Dozen

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

Men Can Do Work Ordinary Machines Extraordinary Dozen Computing Ordinary Man

Author:E. B. White

“A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, Which way are others going?”

Way Mind Important Choices Easier Ultimate Objectives Pleasant Dozen Irrelevant Distracted Forks Fork In The Road

Book:The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen”

Men Want Player Basketball Nba Dozen Want Me Dimes

Author:Tom Izzo

“If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.”

Ifs Knows Honest Politician Hundred Intelligent Categories Dozen

Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

“There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.”

People Six Computer Dozen Computer Graphics

Author:Ivan Sutherland

“I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.”

Wells Said Loss Simple Involved Dear Studios Drawing Painter Upset Nerves Dozen Dear Friend

Book:Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

Source: Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

“Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.”

Source: The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred

“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.”

“Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high”

Want Jobs Sky Offers Managers Valleys Software Dozen Engineers Unemployment Qualified Silicon Silicon Valley Racks Marketers Salespeople Sky High Underemployment

Author:Marc Andreessen

“Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.”

People Realizing Expression Messages Appearance Complicated Dozen Facial Underrated Facial Expression

Book:Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)

Source: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)

“New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that”

Ideas Technology Dozen New Ideas Cheaper Dimes

Author:Dean Kamen

“No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.”

Trying Done Literature Half Tasks Dozen Again And Again

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.”

Boxes I Realized Treated Flames Dozen Ashes Bats Louisville

Author:Bob Uecker

“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.”

People Ideas Action Dozen Priceless Dimes

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.”

Ifs Needs Different Speak Language Dozen Pitcher Different Languages

Author:Michael Lewis

“I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.”

Men Rose Dozen

Author:Barbara La Marr

“A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.”

Enough Artist Half Dozen

Author:Giorgio Morandi

“I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.”

Giving My Own Lists Pet Dozen Physicality Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Zachary Levi

“I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.”

Men Writing Years Wells Jobs Levels Fiction Fashion College Six Dating Magazines Department Editors Articles Dozen Entry Housekeeping Good Housekeeping

Author:Judith Krantz

“How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?”

Trying Moments Given Nations Waiting Attention Media Identity Wall Fame Hundred Machines Mark Wings Rewards Ill Active Dozen Killers Provoking Crave Refusal Mentally Ill Databases Copycats

Author:Wayne LaPierre

“The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.”

Littles Liberty News Concern Faults Absence Newspapers Advertising Exception Dozen Honorable Dissent

Book:The Best of I.F. Stone

Source: The Best of I.F. Stone

“Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.”

Needs Problem Bigs Kids Parent Dying Information Drink Sick Get Away Hospitals Dozen Accurate Hospitality Big Problems Binge Accurate Information

Author:Zach Wamp

“To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.”

“That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business. Insight is much rarer -- and therefore more precious. In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.”

May Ideas Differences Inspire Thousand Valuable Insight Advertising Fuel Good Ideas Dozen Dimes Advertising Business

Author:Phil Dusenberry

“Ive done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.”

Two Done Dozen Infomercials

Author:Matthew Lesko

“Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?”

Giving Trying Courses Steps Meditation Battle Technique Why Not Dozen

Author:Ajahn Chah

“Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.”

Ifs Thinking Men Believe Two Hands Eye Faces Artist Difficult Thousand Photographer Visuals Dozen Vocal Standpoint Cords Visual Art Two Hands Visual Artist Vocal Cords

Author:Jeff Mathews

“Remember that as a vegan, you save dozens of animals every year from the horrors of factory farms, which is great. And when you convince one person to also become vegan, in that moment you double your lifetime impact as a vegan! That's power - and we should use it as effectively as possible. Check out the 'Be a better advocate' videos and essays at www.FarmSanctuary.org.”

Should Years Persons Moments Use Remember Animal Horror Impact Lifetime Checks Video Convince That Moment Farms Vegan Dozen Factories Essays

Author:Bruce Friedrich

“What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.”

Years Wells I Can Age Friendship Bears Prove Female Years Ago Letters Proportion Dozen Pope Arithmetic Forsaken Vex Female Friends

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.”

Ifs Men Mind Different Home Lasts Values Attention Brain Subjects Objects Constant Improvement Dozen Nails Suggesting Undivided Attention Different Subjects

Book:The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

Source: The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.”

Years Race Half Dozen

Author:Dick Trickle

“A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.”

“One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."”

Ifs Men Said Different Government Asks President Taken He Man Please One Day Each Day Chickens Pens Farms Dozen Visiting Arrivals Hens Roosters

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.”

Ifs Way Should Use Half Break Laughing Fool Accounts One Way Necks Dozen Posterity Doubted Balloons

Book:The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford

Source: The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford

“I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.”

Source: Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales: Ghost Stories, Horror Tales & Legends: The Silver Hatchet, Wolverden Tower, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Box with the Iron Clamps, The Grave by the Handpost, The Ghost’s Touch…

“You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.”

Inspirational Littles Jobs Success Business Careers Successful Fields Little Things Endeavor Dozen And Off Successful Career

Author:Zig Ziglar

“I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of roaming around those wild lands, we asked ourselves why we were in business and what kind of business we wanted Patagonia to be. A billion-dollar company? Okay, but not if it meant we had to make products we couldn't be proud of. And we discussed what we could do to help stem the environmental harm we caused as a company. We talked about the values we had in common, and the shared culture that had brought everyone to Patagonia, Inc., and not another company.”