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There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Goal League People Plan Power President Success Think Want
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Responsibility Social Successful Union
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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Baseball Game Hobby Memory Passion Twilight
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Gift Joy Luck Motivate Purity Win
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Buy Family First Job Love Money Rich
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball Common Decency Race
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Answer Feel Lust Mind Simple
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Education Hippie Knowledge Liberal Society Teaching
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Art Creative Knowledge Mindful Process Teach
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Idea Innovation Mind Motivation People Soul
Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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Explore Game Major Passion People Play Sport
People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Hope Idealist Inspire Knowledge People
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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Baseball Believe Country Law Learn Library
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.
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Belief Capacity Life Luck Motivate Trouble
The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Culture Hope Luck Made Mind Smile
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Knowledge League Management Plan Yale

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