For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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