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.
A. Bartlett GiamattiThe university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. Bartlett GiamattiIt is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. Bartlett GiamattiWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
A. Bartlett Giamatti