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• It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

  Edward Boyden

  World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Funny, Broken Heart

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• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  L. Todd Rose

  Discovery, Average, Data

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Inspiration, Long

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #37 (B&S), 1798.

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• I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

  Deidre Hall

  Talking, People, May

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• Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

  Elliott Carter

  Pieces, Radio, Unusual

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• It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

  James Bovard

  Administration, Favors, Conservative

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• The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Simple, America, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

  Larry Wall

  Firsts, Whole

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• The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

  Christopher Meloni

  Father, World, Want

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• I like to do things that are surprising and different.

  Rudy Rucker

  Different

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• I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Air, People

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• A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, People, Spices

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• I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

  Lusia Strus

  Bored, Choices, Theatre

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• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  Natan Sharansky

  Israel, Flames, Hatred

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• We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fuel Prices, Numbers, Down And

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• And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

  Mark Strand

  Comfort, Culture, Entertainment

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• Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

  Robert Menzies

  Considering, Company

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• It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Nice, Book, Writing

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• That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Strong, Nerves, Should

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• I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

  Bobby Vinton

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

  Vaclav Havel

  Drama, Order, Theatre

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

  Robert Morgan

  Break Through, Asian, Watches

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• If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

  John Polkinghorne

  World, Revolution, Strange

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• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Departure, Tomorrow

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