A. Bartlett Giamatti Zitate auf Englisch

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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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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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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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

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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 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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

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