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• Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Phones, Cliche

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their banks and Cornish fishing boats rock and spill and lose their crew in the Atlantic.

  Susan Fletcher

  Summer, Rain, Love Is

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• Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

  Richelle Mead

  Knowing, Life And Death, Would Be

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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• I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of the rain; a racer should embrace the rain. I, alone, could manifest a change around me. By changing my mood, my energy, I allowed Eve to regard me differently. And while I cannot say that I am a master of my own destiny, I can say that I have experienced a glimpse of mastery, and I know what I have to work toward.

  Garth Stein

  Rain, Destiny, Energy

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• It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

  Donna VanLiere

  Care, Gods Will, Take Care

  Donna VanLiere (2009). “Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again”, p.117, Macmillan

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• In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock," I informed them. "Angel has no allegiance to me. She's wanted me gone for a long time. And in case you didn't catch all the episodes from the past year, Angel is... unbalanced." "Untrustworthy," Fang seconded. "Unpredictable," Jeb added. "Dangerous," Dylan chimed in.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Past, Years

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• As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

  Sean Plott

  Nice, Confusing, May

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2013

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• Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

  George Orwell

  Elements, Consideration, Capacity

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• As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

  Diane Frolov

  Life, Struggle, Thinking

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• Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spiritual, Men, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

  Victoria Legrand

  Hair, Bangs, Want

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• I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Worry, Restaurants

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Class, Interesting, Limits

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, Play

  "Jeremy Renner Talks James Gray’s Low Life; Says Steve Mcqueen Biopic Will Focus More on Personal Aspect Than Stunts". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. December 01, 2011.

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• Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future.

  Reince Priebus

  Senior, Track, Leaving

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• Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

  Michael Jackson

  Powerful, Offering, People

  Michael Jackson (2004). “In Sierra Leone”, p.135, Duke University Press

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  We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

  John Legend

  Unique, Light, Shining

  "Let every child's light shine" by John Legend, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2015.

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• Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

  Hugh Prather

  Effort, Results, Mines

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.30, Bantam

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• Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, People, Innovation

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• I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Unique, Self

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• What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Self, Dangerous World

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• As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Different, Arguing, Driving

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.141, Vintage

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• I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

  Nell Blaine

  Trying, Canvas, Methodology

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• There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.

  Eugene Wigner

  Development, Natural, Explosions

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