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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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 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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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