Derek Bok Quotes
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
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The hand has the richest articulation of space.
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I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.
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Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
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Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.
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These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.
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And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed....
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The gods help them that help themselves.
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I want to be the surgeon who cuts you openWho fixes all of life's mistakesI want to be the house that you were raised inThe only place where you feel safe.
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It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
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Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.
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Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
