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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn 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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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