"College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year."

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Source : "Big Think Interview With Gerald Chertavian". bigthink.com.

Gerald Chertavian

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“Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.”
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“You can pick any game and there are two or three plays that determine whether you win or lose, going either way. That's the beauty of the league, man. Every game counts, no matter who you're playing or what their record is.”
“Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.”

Source : "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Acton Institute Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.
“In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.”
“Hereâ€™s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do whatâ€™s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do whatâ€™s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more youâ€™re growing spiritually at that particular moment.”
“All unlived emotions turn to inanity ...”
“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.”

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