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• In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Important Events, Numbers

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• He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

  Melissa Bank

  Men, Facts, Proof

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.43, Penguin

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• She was scared Unprepared Lost in the dark Falling apart I can't survive Without you by my side We're gonna be alright This is what happens when Two worlds collide.

  Demi Lovato

  Fall, Dark, Two

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• When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

  Neal Shusterman

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.54, Xist Publishing

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• Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Doe

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• If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Cracks, May

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• And you bring your words,
  But you're just like them,
  You're unprepared
  'Cause you don't know the terrain

  Dar Williams

  Causes, Terrain, Knows

  Song: It's A War In There, Album: End of the Summer

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• Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.

  Jennifer Worth

  Love Life, Dark, Joy

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• Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Moving

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• How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.

  Newt Gingrich

  New Orleans, Government, Cities

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• Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

  John Steinbeck

  World, Life Or Death, Lordship

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.147, Penguin

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• Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Lying, Afternoon

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• Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart, Pigs, Tasks

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.179, Macmillan

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• It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Men, Thinking

  Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.29, Nation Books

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• Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Military, Soldier, Battle

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.147, Doubleday Canada

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• So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mean, Bullets, Towels

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• We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Advice, Ordinary

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.214, Best Books on

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• Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

  Filip Dewinter

  Fighting, Europe, Liberty

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• Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.

  Zhuge Liang

  Kingdoms, Unexpected

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• The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.

  Ralph C. Smedley

  Speakers

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• Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Honor, Coward

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Tasks, Shame

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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