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Charles M. Vest has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and…
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Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
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For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20…
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We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities…
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Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality…
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Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts…
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We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud…
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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…
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America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of…
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Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of…
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I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact…
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy…
— Francis of Assisi
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let…
— Aesop
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
— Jimmy Carter
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
— Nick Cave
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause…
— Michael Chertoff
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Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel…
— Edward de Bono
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
— Og Mandino
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a…
— Wallace Stevens
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Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and…
— Francis of Assisi
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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
— Don Meyer
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;…
— Charles Lamb
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency…
— Mark Helprin
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