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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

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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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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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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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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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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