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Intimates are predestined. Henry B. Adams | top
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. Mortimer Adler | top
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers. A. R. Ammons | top
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Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States. David Axelrod | top
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. Amelia Barr | top
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism. Lakhdar Brahimi | top
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This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up. Paul Castellano | top
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail. Donald Cram | top
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. Annie Dillard | top
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I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor. David Dinkins | top
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The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability. Ronnie James Dio | top
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Henry Ellis | top
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In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony. Juan Goytisolo | top
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. Ian Hacking | top
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. Johan Huizinga | top
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When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. Rem Koolhaas | top
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. Sam Mendes | top
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The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. Thomas Perry | top
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens | top
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It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people. Victoria Pratt | top
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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt | top
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Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. Robert Shea | top
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Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, "big picture" understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem. Roy Spencer | top
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Never make predictions, especially about the future. Casey Stengel | top
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. Peter Frederick Strawson | top