"It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise."
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"When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven."
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"Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise."
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"the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him."
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"One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality."
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"The good traveler has the gift of surprise."
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"There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with."
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"... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react."
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"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
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"Life is a series of surprises."
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"I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again."
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"I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me."
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"Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable."
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"Surprise comes from defying expectations."
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"If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become acutely self-conscious of the song in performance, so that's a good thing before recording. But I like to have some surprises for the audience; I don't want the audience to know everything that's going to be on the record, because these days, with the Internet, people become avid collectors of pre-knowledge."
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"The real artist's work is a surprise to himself."
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"Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you."
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"My brain surprises even me sometimes."
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"Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises."
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"Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages."
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