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If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.
Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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Larry Lessig
Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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