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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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