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Page 221 1 You can't push it off on somebody else, and 2 it doesn't matter if you didn't make it, if you are 3 putting your name on it, you are responsible. That 4 makes sense to all of us. 5 Knowledge gives you a duty, and that is what 6 this case is all about, ladies and gentlemen. 7 Now, in order to know about knowledge, we 8 have to go back in history. What people knew and when 9 they knew about it. We have got to go back in 10 history. 11 When we go back in history, we are going to 12 talk about something called state of the art. State 13 of the art. 14 All that is is what was known out there in 15 the literature, what was known or could have been 16 known or should have been known by companies that were 17 fooling with this stuff. 18 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the 19 evidence will show that by the 1930s it was known that 20 asbestos causes asbestosis. 21 You may say to yourself, okay, that is