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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Nearly every industry in America, from carbon trading to bricklaying, hosts its own back-slapping awards night.
Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
These days it takes a child nearly 20 years to find out that Superman, Batman will not come to his or her rescue.
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.
I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil.
I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
There was no DVR, no Netflix, and no binge-watching. We didn't even have a VCR till I was nearly out of high school.
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
I'm an intelligent man but I don't feel I articulate or get that across nearly enough, especially in social situations.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.
I didn't go to school that much! I was racing go karts and testing nearly every day, so school wasn't the first priority.
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.