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A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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 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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