My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII 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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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