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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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