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A. Bartlett Giamatti

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Baseball Experience Literature
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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Idea Innovation Mind Motivation People Soul
There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Bad Baseball Sports
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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No one man is superior to the game.
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Game Guide Men Success Superior Teamwork
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Baseball Believe Country Learn Sports Talking Yogi
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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Art Inspirational Power Strong Teacher
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Break Design Heart Yourself
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Business Grace Motivate Soulful Special Think Unique
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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Belief Capacity Life Luck Motivate Trouble
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 Believe Country Law Learn Library
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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Explore Hope Job Military Sacrifice Time
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 Game Hobby Memory Passion Twilight
The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Culture Hope Luck Made Mind Smile
The professionals must set a good example.
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Emotion Example Explore Family Good Life Motivation
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Art Creative Knowledge Mindful Process Teach

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