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• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  Garrett Hardin

  Impact, Political, Environmental

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Interesting, Musical

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• What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Photography, Art, Views

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• The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dream, Mind, Audience

  "Tom Hiddleston: 'The dream is to keep surprising yourself'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Positive, Positivity, People

  Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.98, Augsburg Books

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• Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Jesus, Work

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• One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

  E. W. Howe

  Respect, Men, Literature

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• When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

  Ken Kesey

  Powerful, Ghouls, Firsts

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• It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Resurrection, Rebirth

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• Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left.  Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Faith

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

  Billy Sunday

  Inspiration, Religion, World

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

  Jean Cocteau

  Reality, Habit, Revealing

  "Le Mystère Laïc". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1928.

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• Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

  John C. Reilly

  Keys, Careers, People

  "John C. Reilly: Confessions of a scene-stealer" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Wisdom, Survival

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• It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Would Be, Wonderful

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• What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  People, Communist, Torture

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• But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

  Trip Hawkins

  Technology, Events, Economy

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• Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

  Bradley Whitford

  Baseball, Player, Looks

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• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  Tony Snow

  Military, Giving, Liberty

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• When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Looks, Painting

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• The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Childhood, France

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• Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

  Plautus

  Men, Delay, World

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• It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

  Edward Witten

  Change, Introducing, Bigs

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• That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

  Jon Postel

  Interesting, Magazines, Computer

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• I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

  Adam Brody

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

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