#iom

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. ↗

— Walt Alston

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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. ↗

— George Crumb

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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#axioms #cover #deduction #empirical #facts

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. ↗

— Garth Hudson

#bar #bars #become #country #fortunately

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research. ↗

— Jay Inslee

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The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. ↗

— Leon Kass

#benefits #biomedical #clear #hazards #less

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage. ↗

— Paul Keating

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The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#apply #athletic #based #biomechanics #changes