Derek Bok Quotes
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
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Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
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The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
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Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.
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I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
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I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
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It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
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Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.
