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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII’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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The professionals must set a good example.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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