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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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Buy Family First Job Love Money Rich
The professionals must set a good example.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball Common Decency Race
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Knowledge League Management Plan Yale
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Answer Feel Lust Mind Simple
No one man is superior to the game.
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Game Guide Men Success Superior Teamwork
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
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
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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Belief Capacity Life Luck Motivate Trouble
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Hope Idealist Inspire Knowledge People
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Gift Joy Luck Motivate Purity Win
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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Goal People Plan Power Success Think
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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City Expression Imagination
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Art Creative Knowledge Mindful Process Teach
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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Eating Habit Natural Student Table
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
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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Baseball Believe Country Learn Sports Talking Yogi
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
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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Baseball Believe Country Law Learn Library
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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Explore Game Major Passion People Play Sport
There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Bad Baseball Sports
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Break Design Heart Yourself
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Business Grace Motivate Soulful Special Think Unique
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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