I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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