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• In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

  Anna Quindlen

  Classroom, Ends

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, People, Way

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy (Part Two)". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 24, 2014.

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• When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Education, Wisdom, Cheating

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2013

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• Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?

  Alfred Renyi

  Information, Principles, Needs

  Alfréd Rényi (1984). “A diary on information theory”

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• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  Alan Blinder

  Book, Teaching, Multiple Choice

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• I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.

  Steven Herrick

  Drinking, Results, Take Me

  Steven Herrick (2004). “A Place Like this”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

  Mordecai Richler

  Eight, Class, Ethics

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• Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

  Joel Garreau

  Real, Finals, Alternatives

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• All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

  David Bailey

  School, Paint, Draws

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• I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Kids, College

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• So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

  J. K. Rowling

  Expectations, Hermione, Should

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• I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.

  Alice Munro

  Dream, Mistake, Finding Yourself

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Taken

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• But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

  Robert Fulghum

  May, Left

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.121, Ballantine Books

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• Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fighting, Army

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• Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Thief of Time". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.

  Diana Rowland

  Smart, Agency, Purpose

  Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.321, Bantam

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• When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Doors, Rooms

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.164, Penguin

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• The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

  David Foster Wallace

  Games, Balls, Attention

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• Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

  Emily Giffin

  Jobs, Hate, Years

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Meaningful, Book, People

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• Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

  Julian Barnes

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

  Jack Canfield

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 23, 2010

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• In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Sleep, Math

  Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 20, 2011.

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