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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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