#institute

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. ↗

— Burton Richter

#chemistry #convinced #entered #first #i

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#ambitious #call #called #his #i

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#back #before #children #determined #done

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blacks #bottom #class #institute #massachusetts

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#based #been #concepts #entirely #experiments

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#according #age #alcohol #begins #first

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#counselor #east #i #i am #institute

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. ↗

— John Barton

#amused #became #colour #colours #decides

W.W. Hale the Forth bought the car for Headmaster Franklin, or didn’t they mention that? Granted it was to make up for the fire that W.W. Hale allegedly started in the eighth grade before they suggested that all current and future W.W. Hales continue their education elsewhere- which worked out just as well since I’m at the Knightsbury Institute now.” “I’ve never heard of it” “My father got a letter just this week telling him I have become a model student” “Congratulations”… “Yeah, well, I’m the only student.”… “Of course the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks. ↗

— Ally Carter

#kat #knightsbury-institute #education

the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#inspirational #middle-east #inspirational