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“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place”
C.S. Lewis
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde
“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
Samuel Johnson
“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes”
Mark Twain
“The unexpected always happens”
Proverb
“I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.”
Robert Mapplethorpe
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
D.H. Lawrence
“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
Carl Sandburg
“Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly, they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.”
Bertrand Russell
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