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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."

"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."

"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."

"I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well."

"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."

"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."

"A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom."
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"I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco."

"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."

"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands."

"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."

"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading."

"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy."
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