The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMy goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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