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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.

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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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 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.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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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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