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• The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Funny, Time, Money

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• I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

  Amin Maalouf

  Country, Son, One Day

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• The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Lovely, Fundamentals

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 91, 1980.

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• This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Sight, Feelings

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.186, Vintage

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• And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.

  Jean Ferris

  Normal, Ever After, Silent Treatment

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• Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Caprice, Forsaken

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives or in the lives that they intend to lead in school. When they begin to teach, they come into their classrooms with a sense of affirmation of the goodness and the fullness of existence, with a sense of satisfaction in discovering the unexpected in their students, and with a longing to surprise the world, their kids, even themselves, with their capacity to leave each place they've been ... a better and more joyful place than it was when they entered it.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Soul, Suffering

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Smile, Sweet

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.67, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

  Carl Sagan

  Creativity, Science, Skepticism

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self Esteem, Mirrors, Laughing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.208, Penguin

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• The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Prayer, Heart, Want

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• It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.

  Bette Greene

  Pain, Rip, Grief

  Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Live Life, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

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• That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Twists, Stories

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2013

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• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Thinking, Expectations, Littles

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Great Expectations", 2007), (2005 - ).

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• All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Government, Political

  Attributed in a letter from Engels to C. Schmidt, 5 August 1890

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• We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

  Primo Levi

  Events, Fundamentals, Above And Beyond

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• Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

  Amelia Earhart

  College, People, Inevitable

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• Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

  Saul Bellow

  Life, Beauty, Intrusion

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes--a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected--adversity--is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie.

  Richard Pascale

  Adversity, Pie, Discipline

  Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja (2001). “Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business”, p.276, Crown Business

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• Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops and working in the opposite direction you are really picking up the concavities between the loops, and it is sheer unexpected witchcraft that stocking stitch and garter stitch will permit such an anomaly. Be grateful for this and don't expect anymore.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Grateful, Opposites, Knitting

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• Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety!

  Gary Kinnaman

  Angel, People, Safety

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

  Harold Eugene Edgerton

  Photography, Inspiration, Way

  Harold Eugene Edgerton, Estelle Jussim, Gus Kayafas (1987). “Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Rays, Analysis, Structure

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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