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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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