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«In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
arrivals, departures, morrow, surprising, The Arrival, trap, unexpected
«It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.»
Author: Guy deBord
(Social Reformer)
| Keywords:
computer science, enthusiastically, read between the lines, starting line, surprising
«God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising.»
Author: Walter C. Klein
| About:
Achievement,
Genius,
God,
Patience
| Keywords:
achievements, bestows, relative, surprising
«Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.»
Author: Will Stanton
| Keywords:
centered, outburst, outbursts, scratches, self-centered, self taught, sudden, surprising, upset, upsets, upsetting
« I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction - awake, throbbing with life, unknown, always surprising, unpredictable.»
«Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
discovers, displays, left over, novelties, novelty, show off, surprising
«Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
assumes, disrupt, disrupted, disrupting, surprising
«If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Science
| Keywords:
human action, Human Events, imperative, penetrate, surprising
«ACEPHALOUS, adj. In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled at his forelock some hours after a Saracen scimitar had, unconsciously to him, passed through his neck, as related by de Joinville.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absently, acephalous, adj, crusader, crusaders, forelock, Saracen, scimitar, surprising, unconsciously
«El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
Country,
Democracy
| Keywords:
conversations, El Salvador, Salvador, Salvadoran, Salvadorans, surprising
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