#sit

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. ↗

— Charles Vest

#coalition #concept #grew #group #grown

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. ↗

— Charles Vest

#cost #federal #federal government #government #i

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. ↗

— Charles Vest

#both #congress #effectively #general #general public

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass. ↗

— Linda Vester

#around #dining #dining room #eucharist #formal

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#any #anyone #cannot #chief #chief executive

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Harold Ford

#been #being #choice #could #further

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #cultivate #employer #even #extensively

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively. ↗

— Jiang Zemin

#politics #positively #study #talk

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#another #another man #beating #child #diamond

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#dog #even #follow #his #knew