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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAll I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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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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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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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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