"Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful."

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

Charles M. Vest

#Helpful Quotes #Made Quotes #Taxes Quotes

“Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.”
“Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.”
“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”
“It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.115, Canongate Books
“I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.”
“I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.”
“You will look into my eyes and you will know I am The Game and that I am that damn good!”
“I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.”

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