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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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• I'm not a predictable black liberal.

  Juan Williams

  Black

  "Juan Williams Speaks Out About NPR Firing". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Feet, Interesting, Risk

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• Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, People, Risk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.84, Penguin

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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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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.

  Alan Lightman

  Goodbye, Coffee, Passion

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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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• 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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• The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

  Lewis Thomas

  Past, Agency, Interesting

  "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.

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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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• 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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• I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

  Robert Plant

  Taken, Voice, Lines

  "A little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll". Interview with Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.

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• I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Baseball, Football

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Mean, Thinking, Anomalies

  Arthur Kleinman (2007). “What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

  James Howe

  Past, Rabbits, Surprise

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• It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

  Donna VanLiere

  Care, Unpredictable, Gods Will

  Donna VanLiere (2009). “Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again”, p.117, Macmillan

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• It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.

  Ann M. Martin

  Other Worlds, Evil, Everyday

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• Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, Fabulous, Breathtaking

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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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• But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

  Dennis Lehane

  Eye, Thinking, Often Is

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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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• 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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• When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Air, Shopping, Advertising

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• Fifty dorcas they’re setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They’re too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can’t slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Stupid, Law

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.95, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

  Tom Berenger

  Real, Mistake, Thinking

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