Blessed with the memory of an elephant and wit sharper than Gary Shandling 's, whom he once represented, Boies is like Clarence Darrow on speed.

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Is this because I was blessed with a superhuman memory capable of remembering 75 minutes worth of material and the exact sequence of 40 slides?

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Venerable operators like yours truly simultaneously are blessed and cursed by their historical memory of the life cycles for great growth companies.

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