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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMajor 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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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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