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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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] 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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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