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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell
A Scout is never caught off guard; he is always prepared to take action when anything unforeseen occurs.
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Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!
Randy Savage
Be prepared for anything in the realm of insanity!
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Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
Timothy Leary
Everyone holds a fragment of the answer. Nobody joins your life accidentally. Follow your intuition. Do something unexpected. Locate the rest.
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Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.
Zhuge Liang
Take the offensive against the unsuspecting.
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We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.
Primo Levi
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
John Tukey
The maximum worth of a picture is when it compels us to observe what we never anticipated to discover.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. Lewis
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There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.
Jacques Derrida
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You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
Neil Armstrong
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Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.
Mod Sun
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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
Wendell Berry
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What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together
Paul Smith
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There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
Jason Silva
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Love can make you do things that you never thought possible
Phil Collins
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A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.
Kara Walker
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The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.
Bob Barker
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No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius Caesar
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I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
Ernest Rutherford
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Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.
Sigmund Freud
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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
Jaron Lanier
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The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
Venerable Bede
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey
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Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
Timothy Leary
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
Heraclitus
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And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.
Jean Ferris
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Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.
Gene Cernan
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In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.
Fernando Perez
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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
Norman Foster
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I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
Tim Winton
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Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.
Amelia Earhart
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…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.
Mark Nepo
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Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.
Pierre Omidyar
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No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
Wayne Shorter
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The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
Shonda Rhimes
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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.
Charles Baudelaire
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Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Julius Caesar
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That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.
Peter J. Carroll
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I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine
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A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.
Dorothy Hodgkin
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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
Bob Dylan
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Saul Bellow
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A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
Asger Jorn
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
Paul D. Boyer
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It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.
Ross Perot