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 GIAMATTIMy goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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