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Charles Vest

"We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn."

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A.E. Samaan

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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A.E. Samaan

"The world system is employment."

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A.E. Samaan

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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A.E. Samaan

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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A.E. Samaan

"Do not be weary to make money."

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A.E. Samaan

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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A.E. Samaan

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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A.E. Samaan

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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A.E. Samaan

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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A.E. Samaan

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Charles Vest
"The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended."

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Charles Vest
"I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets."

Finance

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Charles Vest
"We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education."

Education

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Charles Vest
"Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public."

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Charles Vest
"Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life."

Education

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Charles Vest
"We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn."

Work

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Charles Vest
"We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index."

Education

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Charles Vest
"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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Charles Vest
"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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Charles Vest
"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."

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