People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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