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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Culture Hope Luck Made Mind Smile
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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Goal People Plan Power Success Think
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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Idea Innovation Mind Motivation People Soul
The professionals must set a good example.
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Emotion Example Explore Family Good Life Motivation
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Gift Joy Luck Motivate Purity Win
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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Education Hippie Knowledge Liberal Society Teaching
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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Explore Game Major Passion People Play Sport
I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Athlete Champion Expert Game Legend Life World
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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Idea Motivate Racism Represent Vestige
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Baseball Believe Country Learn Sports Talking Yogi
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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Eating Habit Natural Student Table
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball Common Decency Race
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
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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Baseball Game Hobby Memory Passion Twilight
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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Belief Capacity Life Luck Motivate Trouble
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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Art Inspirational Power Strong Teacher

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