Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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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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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.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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