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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Break Design Heart Yourself
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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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Baseball Experience Literature
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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Bad Baseball Sports
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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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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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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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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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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