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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIUniversities 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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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