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There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. Lynn Abbey | top
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. Lascelles Abercrombie | top
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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. Brian Aldiss | top
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. Norman Ralph Augustine | top
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs. Joe Baca | top
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. Earl Derr Biggers | top
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel. Paul D. Boyer | top
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Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. Frank Dane | top
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Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor. Dante Hall | top
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. Seamus Heaney | top
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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. Seamus Heaney | top
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The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. Chuck Jones | top
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. John Locke | top
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I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before. Robert Mapplethorpe | top
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My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere. Linda McCartney | top
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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over. Graham Nelson | top
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In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected. Bruno Rossi | top
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg | top
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Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. Moshe Sharett | top
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. Herbert Spencer | top
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On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view. Hideki Tojo | top
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky | top
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. John Tukey | top
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Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Edward Witten | top
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession. Florenz Ziegfeld | top
