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• Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

  Paul Smith

  Thinking, Logic, Make Sense

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• She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.

  P. C. Cast

  Girl, True Love, Deception

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.591, Macmillan

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• If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Geography, Foreign Policy

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• The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

  Brian Tracy

  Encouragement, Powerful, People

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• It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

  Bill Maher

  People, Stupidity, Seems

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• Of course you want more revenue, but what good is it if it isn't predictable?

  Aaron Ross

  Want, Revenue, Courses

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• I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Stupid, Silly, Past

  "Text: Rumsfeld's News Briefing". www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2003.

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• I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, Earth, Who We Are

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

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• I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Guarantees, Principles

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• I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

  Erskine Bowles

  Thinking, Together, Faces

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• Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

  Adam Grant

  Negative

  "Give & Take with Adam Grant, Top Contrarian Self-Help Expert". Interview with Marty Nemko, www.psychologytoday.com. December 31, 2015.

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• Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Perseverance, Work

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• Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Extraordinary Moments

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, 6th Century BC.

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• It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence.

  Dennis Quaid

  Country, Morning, Numbers

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• A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Animal, Space, Brain

  "Economics and Ecology". Book by Kenneth Boulding, p. 225, 1966.

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• Embrace opportunities with limited downside, unlimited upside. The best deals are those where your risk of loss is predictable and fixed if things go wrong, while your potential gains are enormous if things go right. Take such deals whenever you can get them if the odds of success are halfway decent.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, Loss, Opportunity

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• One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

  Sean Penn

  Cracks, Worst Times, Haiti

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Pool Table, Way

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

  Bill Gates

  Engineering, Mature, Software

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• The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.

  James Fallows

  War, Iraq, Wealth

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

  Astra Taylor

  Wind, People, Giving

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.93, Macmillan

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• I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

  Masiela Lusha

  Stitches, Way, Sometimes

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

  Greg Graffin

  Data, Validation, Basics

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Michael Kruse made the point that, on the one hand, this seems all totally unprecedented in American politics; on the other hand, it seems somehow utterly predictable in the context of the personality of Donald Trump.

  Susan Glasser

  Personality

  Source: www.politico.com

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• ...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

  James Roby

  Teaching, Learning, Class

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