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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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