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.
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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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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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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