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Unexpected
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“None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.”
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“... experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.”
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“... the cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.”
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“Something totally unexpected, / like a barking cat.”
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“In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.”
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“It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.”
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“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.”
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“Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.”
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“What a boon disparity is — difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.”
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“The Trevor way of life seldom involved taking a decision that had not, in fact, been unconsciously made before the problem apparently arose. Events inevitably succeeded each other, and, in so restricted a life as theirs, the normal margin for accidental influences to bring about changes was extremely small. Thus, no mechanism had ever been developed for the assimilation of the unexpected ...”
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“Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.”
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“Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected!”
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“The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.”