The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIIt 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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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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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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