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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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[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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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