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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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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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[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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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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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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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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