"The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand."
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"Globalization is the next big artworld idea"
"Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion."
"Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so."
"From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature."
"Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started."
"Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage."
"Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you."
"She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women?"
"The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart."
"If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next."
"She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."
"There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t find enough of them to describe it."
"No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next."
"Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer."
"Guess the honeymoon is over!" Denise muttered once we are outside. "Next I suppose I'll be sleeping in the wet spot."
"Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette"
"I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either."
"Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!"
"Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be."