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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

People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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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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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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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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