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

  Brian Tracy

  Encouragement, Powerful, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Eye, Giving, World

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• Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

  Lois Lowry

  Life Changing, Wish, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.

  Rachel Caine

  Pale, Shane

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.172, Penguin

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• The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!

  Henri Michaux

  Long, Choices, Given

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• How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

  Anne Rice

  Sweet, Shameful, Insipid

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2444, Ballantine Books

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• If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

  Frank Beddor

  Revenge, Enemy, Survival

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• Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

  Tom Robbins

  Growing Up, Nice, Mean

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.254, Bantam

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• Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

  Gail Carriger

  Self, Extra Time, Trying

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

  James Patterson

  Everyday, Normalcy, Patterns

  James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.15, Random House

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• A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.

  James Patterson

  Fun, People, Trying

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.135, Random House

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• Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Opportunity, Arise

  "Google Takes One Giant Leap in Building the Connected Classroom" by Mark W. Guay, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2013.

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