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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAll I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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