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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. Crystal Eastman

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I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. Crystal Eastman

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Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No. David Boies

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While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary. David Boies

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The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. David Boies

Home Recording Says Lawful Directly Consumers Audio Act Copying

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years. David Boies

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You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently. David Boies

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I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money. David Boies

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Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it. David Boies

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Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work. David Boies

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It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case. David Boies

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I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't. David Boies

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One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California. David Boies

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For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. Derek Bok

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There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money. Derek Bok

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Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions. Derek Bok

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Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. Derek Bok

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. Derek Bok

Attitude Great Superior Our Way Say Harvard Embarrassment Never Know Any Done Represent Graduates Who Asserted

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say. Derek Bok

Will Become Community Humane Caring Say Members Restricting Suspect

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions. Derek Bok

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end. Derek Bok

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