"At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead."
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"Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy."
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"I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more."
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"The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us."
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"true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing"
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"Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself."
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"You’re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise."
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"History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
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"The ending is always a surprise."
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"Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises."
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"Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise."
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"That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life."
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"Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise."
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"I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say."
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"What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being."
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"I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that."
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"No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise."
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"The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more."
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"I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do."
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"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
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