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 GIAMATTIThe professionals must set a good example.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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