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.
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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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 university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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