Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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