"Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature."
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"The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected."
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"Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results."
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"It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation."
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"What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart."
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"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."
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"One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice."
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"Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words."
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"In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also."
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"He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored"
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"To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit."
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"To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control."
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"This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected."
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"The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science."
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"experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur."
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"its fun to do the unexpected."
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"By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion."
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"New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct."
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"life is always bringing unexpected gifts."
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"As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all."
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