The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIYou 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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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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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