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twelve
«A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.»
Author: Jack Benny
(Entertainer)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
dressed, following, kid, schmuck, scout, scouting, Scouts, scout troop, troop, twelve
«A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Education,
Learning
| Keywords:
letters, student, twelve, university
«Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.»
Author: Earl Nightingale
| Keywords:
fifteen, get into, Interesting Times, line of work, spending, twelve
«A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Ignorance,
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
jury, twelve
«I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
ages, every month, every year, fifteen, for example, geriatrics, guess, months, puts, twelve
«A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Juries and Judges,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
chosen, juries, jury, lawyer, persons, twelve
«All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.»
«And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; / And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse: / But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.»
«A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.»