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I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.

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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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Baseball Experience Literature
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
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
The professionals must set a good example.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Goal League People Plan Power President Success Think Want
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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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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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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Explore Hope Job Military Sacrifice Time
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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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Idea Motivate Racism Represent Vestige
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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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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Art Inspirational Power Strong Teacher
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.

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I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.

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