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• I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

  Sandra Brown

  Growing Up, Love Is, Guy

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• There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Somewhere Else, Obamacare, People

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• Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

  Peter Snell

  Running, Competition, Boring

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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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• I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Energy, Enthusiasm

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.94, A&C Black

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• That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

  John Green

  People, Listening, Want

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

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• Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Eye, Skins, Handwriting

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Happiness, Mean, Order

  Laura Schlessinger (2007). “The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage”, p.59, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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• Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greed, Promise, Fuel

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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.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, People, Movement

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.27, Vintage

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• He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

  John Green

  Mind, Wander

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.150, Penguin

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• Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

  Mario Batali

  Hate, Dumb, Different

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• Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

  Umberto Eco

  Boring

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• People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, Media, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

  Kit Reed

  Approval, Devalue, Constant

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• Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Intellectual, Quality

  "Lila : An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1991.

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• To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, World, Be A Man

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

  Laura Miller

  Fire, Stories, Body

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

  Tina Weymouth

  Art, Golf, Choices

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• The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

  John Avlon

  Smart, Anger, Talking

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• Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

  Phil Bredesen

  Real, Focus, Energy

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• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Insomnia, Patterns, Relief

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.

  Mao Zedong

  Leaving, Way, Anarchy

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