For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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