Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII 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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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