Derek Bok Quotes

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

Derek Bok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.

John Edward Redmond

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When I feel I'm doing too much, I do less if I can.

Angelina Jolie

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In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

Angela Ahrendts

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Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Meryl Streep

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I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

Skeet Ulrich

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When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

Tony Fernandes

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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Robert Browning

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My experience working the KKK assignment influenced the rest of my career in law enforcement in that it taught me to think and act on my own initiative when my superiors in the department stood in my way.

Ron Stallworth

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Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Douglas Horton

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I think the most important thing is to always clean your face and ensure your make-up comes off at night. Going to bed with make-up is just so bad for your skin.

Doutzen Kroes

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The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.

Deeyah Khan

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