"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving;……" — A. Bartlett Giamatti
"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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37 Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd…
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the…
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine…
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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…
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe…
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as…
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The professionals must set a good example.
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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid…
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