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 GIAMATTIThere’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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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 tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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