"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."

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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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“I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.”

Source : "The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.
“Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.”
“It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2007). “Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy”, p.516, SAGE Publications Ltd
“Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.”
“I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.”
“I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.”
“Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.”

Source : Jill Shalvis (2010). “Simply Irresistible”, p.170, Hachette UK
“I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.”

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