Surprising Quotes
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Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
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Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.
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Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
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I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.
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With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot of my Israeli characters, what it was like to inherit such a complicated and symbiotic relationship to America and to feel how tangled that is, and it's nothing that they chose to do themselves.
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Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family.
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An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy
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I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.
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But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.
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It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
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Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
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I don't see myself outside Atletico; something very surprising would have to happen.
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The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.
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I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.
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I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
