"The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them."

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

Charles M. Vest

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“It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'”
“As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.”
“A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.”
“If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.”
“I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans , I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language... in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians... To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.”
“I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.”
“I want to sing using a throatsinging style, like for example kargyraa, but at the same time sing it like a normal way. Maybe I will try some opera. To sing a melody, and to sing not only Tuvan traditional melodies, but I would like to try Western classics, blues. I think Tuvan music and American blues are very close to each other.”
“Science is the topography of ignorance.”

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