Alexander Acosta Quotes
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I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
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Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,-these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck.
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We with Andrew Ridgeley didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.
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Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
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Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.
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Imagine if we had stopped science in 1904. Yes, there would have been no nerve gas and no Bhopal, but there would also have been no penicillin. All science is a trade-off.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.
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He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.
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Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
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Please, sir, I want some more.
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I often find it's just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It's how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.
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Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.
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We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill.
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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The four fastest runners don’t win the relay race but rather the team that gets the baton around the track the fastest.
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Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
