People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIIt 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 university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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[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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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