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en QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another --usually about as many times as it can be got there.
  Ambrose Bierce

en ... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
  Paul Bowles

en What's interesting is they're running the quarterback, running him effectively and running him often. Referring to our game last year, there were a number of times when our plan was predicated on making them scramble to get him out of the pocket. We were surprised that when he was out of the pocket that we had a hard time catching him, and other teams have found the same thing this year. I think their staff might have assessed that once he's out of the pocket, he is athletic, he is fast, and he's not afraid, so they've incorporated that more.

en COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.

en I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.

en I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.

en I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.

en She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. There were a number of times when we were able to stop multiple completions. We were able to force the quarterback to move within the pocket, and that seemed to affect his accuracy.

en There were a number of times when we were able to stop multiple completions, ... We were able to force the quarterback to move within the pocket, and that seemed to affect his accuracy.

en It is Jesse Ventura times 100. She's got a thousand times as much money, 100 times the name recognition. She has a sterling reputation for honesty.

en I would hope they would look at the record that was made during the last Congress going over his background, the number of times he was reversed on cases, the number of times he did not follow the law as laid down in his own circuit, and that they would say they could probably do a better choice than that.

en Two extra pills a month seems modest, but it adds up when you multiply it times the total number of medications received times the number of recipients. A snowflake grew into an iceberg. That's how it became a $2 million case.

en These quarterbacks that are going to be competing throughout summer camp and there's no way to know how it will work out. It's fun to see that competition and see them both getting better. Both guys can operate in the pocket and outside the pocket. The only difference is that Joe has been under center 11 times before (at Nebraska).

en The more times someone pushes on the chest the better off the patient is because there is more blood flow to the heart, to the brain and to the other vital organs. Push hard on the person's chest and push fast, allow the chest to recoil or relax completely and limit the number of times the compressions are stopped.


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