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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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