"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."

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Source : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

Charles M. Vest

#Awards Quotes #Pell Grants Quotes #Tuition Quotes

“Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.”
“There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.”
“The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57
“I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.”
“If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.”

Source : 1986 Coasting, ch.6.
“Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.”
“Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.”
“Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.”

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