"The best surprise is no surprise."
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"When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value ."
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"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
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"It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise."
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"Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises."
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"The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula."
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"There can never be surprises in logic."
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"The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect."
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"The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful."
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"Surprise is the mother of panic."
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"The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life."
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"Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?"
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"Don't let your imagination take you by surprise."
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"The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order."
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"Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish."
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"I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human."
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"Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones."
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"That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible."
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"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."
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"Surprise is where creativity comes in."
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