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Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. -- Leonard Susskind
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. -- Dan Quayle
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. -- Stendhal
Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. -- Max von Sydow
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. -- Quentin Crisp
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. -- Brian Greene
One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. -- Raymond E. Feist
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences. -- Jamais Cascio
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. -- Thomas Paine
Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with. -- Tony Dungy
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. -- Alain Badiou
Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable. -- Ben Bernanke
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. -- Nick Turse
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation. -- Jason Silva
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income. -- P. T. Barnum
Accident is simply unforeseen order. -- Novalis
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen. -- Agatha Christie
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary. -- Pierre Boulez
Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid. -- Dorothea Brande
The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart. -- William P. Young
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory. -- Claude Bernard
Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. -- Robert Bresson
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The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen. -- Confucius
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse. -- Heraclitus
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. -- Victor Hugo
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. -- Hugh Blair
People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen. -- Lee Boyd Malvo
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar -- Marshall McLuhan
Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances. -- Miya Yamanouchi
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. -- Philip Roth
What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps. -- Tibullus
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. -- Henry Fielding
Unspoken words between you and I,Present in the eyes of knowing,Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,I am yours. -- Truth Devour
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters -- Julio Cortazar
Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose... -- Neil Postman
I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections. -- Maureen McCormick
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes. -- Isaac Asimov
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. -- H. A. L. Fisher
The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes. -- Richard Alley
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. -- Marcus Aurelius
A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end? -- Alexander Cairncross
The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities. -- Robertson Davies
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen. -- Victor Hugo
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen. -- Adrian Bejan
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy. -- Emile M. Cioran
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen. -- Horace
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires. -- Marcus Eremita
I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen. -- Frederic Joliot-Curie
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. -- Napoleon Hill
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought. -- George Gissing
...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. -- William Butler Yeats

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