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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII’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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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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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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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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