Derek Bok Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1930

Topics

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Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.

Michael Gurian

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I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

Amanda Beard

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I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.

Toni Kroos

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We want people to take responsibility for how healthy they are, and we want to help them live longer, healthier lives.

Tom Frieden

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Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

Ron Fournier

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If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Louis C. K.

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If legislators come to believe that police power is an ever-present constitutional trump card they can play whenever it suits them, overreaching is inexorable.

Don Willett

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I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

Dinah Sheridan

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If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.

Dorothy Hamill

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I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

Antje Traue

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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Annie Lennox

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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Allen Tate

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