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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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