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If people don't buy things then companies don't make things, and if companies don't make things they don't need as many employees to... not make them I know it's a double-negative but I think it works, either way you know what I'm saying.
Corey Reynolds: What I'd Say to POTUS Corey Reynolds 2011
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If people don't buy things then companies don't make things, and if companies don't make things they don't need as many employees to... not make them I know it's a double-negative but I think it works, either way you know what I'm saying.
Corey Reynolds: What I'd Say to POTUS Corey Reynolds 2011
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I mean ... they are based off of comic-books, that is like a double-negative.
More SPIDER-MAN Reboot Details: Lower Budget, Higher Drama – Collider.com 2010
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I won't say it isn't fair for two reasons: One, such a statement would be a double-negative and hate those.
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If people don't buy things then companies don't make things, and if companies don't make things they don't need as many employees to... not make them I know it's a double-negative but I think it works, either way you know what I'm saying.
Corey Reynolds: What I'd Say to POTUS Corey Reynolds 2011
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Regardless of why the children end up smart, whether because of the fantastic public school system or a strange double-negative interaction of parental genomes, there are a great many learned and distinguished young people who go home for the holidays to watch their family elders play "pull my finger" around the dinner table.
Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But the word IRREGARDLESS is like a double-negative and is not a true word.
GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me' 2009
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Last year, one of our panelists proposed that “looking edgy” was the key to appealing to boomer women, not a concept that the double-negative “How Not to Look Old” appears to capture very well.
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"War on Terror" is the ultimate double-negative, isn't it?
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I think this whole double-negative argument is misguided.
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