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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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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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City Expression Imagination
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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Idea Innovation Mind Motivation People Soul
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 Game Hobby Memory Passion Twilight
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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Education Hippie Knowledge Liberal Society Teaching
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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Athlete Champion Expert Game Legend Life World
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Art Baseball Dislocation Explore Motivation People Unique Whole
The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Culture Hope Luck Made Mind Smile
The professionals must set a good example.
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Emotion Example Explore Family Good Life Motivation
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Gift Joy Luck Motivate Purity Win
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball Common Decency Race
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Baseball Experience Literature
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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Eating Habit Natural Student Table
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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Goal People Plan Power Success Think
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
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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Explore Game Major Passion People Play Sport

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