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Discover LudwigThe part of the sentence "all one can do" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that you have done all that you can do in a particular situation. Example: We have done all one can do to resolve the situation, but it still remains unresolved.
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She won't be shut up or brushed away because she's too full of life — or dear life, as the book's title would have it: precious but also costly and so unpredictable it's all one can do to hang on.
It was modernist white-on-white: "Perhaps that is all one can do today in Russia?" she muses.
If one reads the tea leaves — and that's often all one can do in Russia — it is clear that Putin has had enough of the protests.
But argue is all one can do, because despite all the statistics that get thrown around (shots on goal, scoring chances, hits, face-offs, power-play efficiency, follicles per hairline zone, as per Bosley, the World's Most Experienced Hair Restoration Expert™), the question of which team outplayed the other is entirely a subjective one.
All one can do is flee.
Which means, naturally, that all one can do is believe all the harder.
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(He's even written a high-minded book about all the good one can do on Wall Street, titled "Goodbye Gordon Gekko").
Of all the twisted shit one can do on this list, Stannis's decision to go along with this beats them all.
You also may find it hard to delegate because, after all, no one can do things as well as you.
Everyone was using it – to find parties, to silently heckle panels, to do all the things that one can do with Twitter.
But, hey, no one can do it all.
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