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 GIAMATTITo go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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