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 GIAMATTISome 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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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