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• I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.

  Solange Knowles

  Pride, Records, Proud

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• The more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected.

  Katherine Heigl

  Vacuums, Want, Free Yourself

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

  Wendell Berry

  Schedules, Want, Wonder

  Interview with Jim Leach, www.neh.gov. May/June 2012.

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• Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Recovery, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  House, Events, Routine

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• Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

  Alex Flinn

  Sometimes, Unexpected Things, Happens

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• That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Gains, Strange, Form

  Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.100, Weiser Books

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• No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Bravery, Disturbed

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• If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

  Jane Fonda

  Careers, Inconvenience, Chosen

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• I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Life, Mother, Courage

  "Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service" by Larry Neumeister, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2008.

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• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Experience, Surprise

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.542

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• A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

  Arnold Bennett

  Firsts, Planning, Late

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• Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

  Julius Caesar

  Death, Surprise, Julius

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• The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

  James Elkins

  Oil, Discovery, Brilliant

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.

  Jan Burke

  Witty, Smart, Hero

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• Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

  George Eliot

  Life, Distance, Views

  George Eliot (1883*). “The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot”

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• The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stars, Rain, Flames

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.425

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• Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Bitterness, Delight

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along.

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, Watches, Phases

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. November 19, 2013.

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• The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Japan, Games

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• If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

  Paul Dirac

  Humble, Loss, Hands

  "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom". Book by Graham Farmelo, 2009.

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

  Lynda Barry

  Business, Matter, No Matter What

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.

  Patrick Carman

  Loyalty, Struggle, Break Through

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• The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Names

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2166, Wildside Press LLC

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