"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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"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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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"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."

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"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."

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"There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government."

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"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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"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."

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"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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"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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