“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.” KnowsChildrenThreeLanguageHoursWorkFourMonthsBecomingSixBenefitsResearchAdultsDifficultyConstantTongueFasterDisagreeDozenSix MonthsTheoreticalExperimentationThree MonthsUnderestimatedFluentLinguists Author:Tim Ferriss
“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.” MenWritingStillsWholeLeftHalfMorningFourWifeLandFieldsPromiseWhole LifeClockDozenPigsNew DayWisestFertilityPasturesWisest ManPallets Author:Jose Saramago
“The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred.” YearsStruggleFourHundredDozenItemsColonyThrough The YearsBibliography Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."” MenSaidHumorFunnyFourShopsEggsCracksDozenCracked Author:Frank Carson
“When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.” YearsTwoThreeFourTelevisionYears AgoSevenNewspapersStationsDozenGlobesBoston Author:Will McDonough
“The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.” PeopleRealRealityRoomsVirtueFiveFourCuttingTeamStandardsShotsBuiltConstantDigitalGet AwayDozenRobotsDomainYardsticks Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.” PeopleYearsDifferentSpiritJesusExistenceFourPeriodsHolyThousandHundredHoly SpiritAppropriateSpokesDozenMaryThousand YearsDifferent Peoples Author:Andrew Wommack