Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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