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"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved it is God's finger on man's shoulder." »Charles Langbridge Morgan
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"Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right." »Mark Twain
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"Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him." »Golo Mann
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"Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise." »Horace
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"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise." »Horace, Epistles
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." »Alice Walker
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." »Alan Turing
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." »George S. Patton
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." »George S. Patton
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"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." »George S. Patton
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." »George Smith Patton, Jr.
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"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy." »Karl von Clausewitz
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"Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise." »Czech Proverb
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"Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living." »Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream." »Heywood
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"There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror." » W. Somerset Maugham
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"Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise." »Lewis Thomas
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"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs." »Stanislaw Ulam
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"It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics." »Denise Caruso
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"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened." »Douglas Couplan
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"As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." »Maurice Wilkes
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"Death comes, and makes a man his prey, A man whose powers are yet unspent; Like one on gathering flowers intent, Whose thoughts are turned another way. Begin betimes to practise good, Lest fate surprise thee unawares Amid thy round of schemes and cares; To-morrow?s task to-day conclude.*" »Mahabharata
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"Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse." »Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V
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"Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god been taken by surprise in the crucifixion of Christ Would He now be forced to resort to some makeshift arrangement No, for the crucifixion was all part of--indeed, the central part of, His secret, eternal plan, now revealed to Paul." »Cornelius Stam
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