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• If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

  Richard Dawkins

  Machines, Remember, Computer

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

  Kofi Annan

  People, Giving, Chance

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• I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

  Ellen Raskin

  Book, Trying, World

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• The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

  Susan Sontag

  Atrocities, Firsts, Shock

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

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• If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

  Bill Gates

  School, Optimism, Empathy

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• The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Traveler

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

  Manmohan Singh

  Advantage, Terrorist

  "Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Vows To Bring Mumbai Bombers To Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Sunflower, Enthusiasm

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• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  Pat Roberts

  Agriculture, President, Fans

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• Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

  Gloria Estefan

  Inspiration, Love Is, Source

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• Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

  Seth Godin

  Connections, Delight, Remarkable

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• It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.

  Stephen Colbert

  Community, Presidential, Black

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• When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Reality, Demand, May

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.82, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Book, Old Friends, Different

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• Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

  Jeremy Irons

  Fall, Opportunity, Risk

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Girl, Everyday, Dull

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• I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

  John Malkovich

  Watches, Actors, Good Actors

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• Sharing the cover with Irina means a lot. Irina is the most beautiful woman in the world and working with her was a surprise and something very special. It was the first time we did something together. And I enjoyed it.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Beautiful, Mean, Special

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• It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Sound, Eras, Computer

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

  E. M. Forster

  Plot, Elements, Detectives

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.132, RosettaBooks

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• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Journey

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• Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on me quite by surprise. I've learned over time to allow that to happen, rather than to feel that I can simply solve the problem by continuous, grueling effort.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Effort, Mind, Problem

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• But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in piles on my desk, they stack behind me on my shelves, they surprise me every time I look for one and find ten more I had forgotten about. I love their covers, their weight and their substance. And like the child I was, with the key to the world that reading gave me, it is still exciting for me to find a new book, open it at the first page and plunge in, head first, heart deep.

  Ramona Koval

  Education, Children, Book

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• The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Future, Bounds

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