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• Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Journey, Stories

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• Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Air, Weight, Mercury

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• President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fake, President, Campaigns

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• I have not asked for life.
  But I try to accept whatever
  life brings without surprise.
  And I shall depart again without having
  questioned anyone about my strange
  stay here on earth.

  Omar Khayyam

  Trying, Earth, Strange

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• The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day, until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a
  twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Children, Twilight, Weather

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• I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish

  Sanaa Lathan

  Cherish

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• Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However, if you catch on early, before others believe, you might have valuable “surprise-a-mentals”.

  Ed Seykota

  Believe, Fundamentals, Useless

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• I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

  Andrew Cuomo

  Government, Surprise Me

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• Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Ideas, Welcome, Thinker

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Bored

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• To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Real, Wife, Choices

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• ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Temptation, Satan

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• To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified. It's quite simple, really. It's an ethical view, so no surprise it confuses utilitarians.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Believe, Mean, Simple

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• Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.

  J. C. Ryle

  Faithful, Doe, Records

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.97, Editora Dracaena

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• I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

  Russell Crowe

  Success, Expected, Know How

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• It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.

  Stephen Harper

  Men, Law, Support

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• When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

  Alexander Calder

  Joy, Pieces, Mobile

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• Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

  Steven Amsterdam

  Hands, Attention, Fiction

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• The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

  L. J. Smith

  Girl, Strong, Book

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• I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

  Lynn Abbey

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

  Adolf Galland

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

  Peter Green

  Planning, Marvelous, Marvelous Things

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• Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Sea, Water

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• More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

  Keith Morris

  Use, Pleasant Surprises, Revelations

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• But what if you're wrong?
  What if there's more?
  What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?
  What if you jump?
  And just close your eyes?
  What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?
  What if He's more than enough?
  What if it's love?

  Nichole Nordeman

  Eye, What If, Arms

  Song: What If

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