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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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