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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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Akshay Vasu

"Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back."

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Akshay Vasu

"Look down the road I'm traveling and you will see my goal, it's there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way."

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Akshay Vasu

"My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily reach from A to B. I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D. And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z."

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Akshay Vasu

"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."

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Akshay Vasu

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

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Akshay Vasu

"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"

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Akshay Vasu

"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."

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Akshay Vasu

"To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it."

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Akshay Vasu

"We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast."

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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
"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."

Time

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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
"Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding."

Government

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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
"The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities."

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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
"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
"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
"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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