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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Votes: 3

Eleanor Roosevelt

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Votes: 3

Brian Tracy

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. Votes: 3

Isaiah Berlin

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Success is predictable. Votes: 2

Brian Tracy

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. Votes: 2

Brian Tracy

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Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. Votes: 2

Chet Atkins

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He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed. Votes: 2

Sid Waddell

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Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable. Votes: 2

Carl Rogers

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You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. Votes: 2

Noam Chomsky

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Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. Votes: 2

Brian Tracy

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Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? Votes: 2

Phil Donahue

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. Votes: 2

Warren Buffett

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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. Votes: 2

Gail Sheehy

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Votes: 2

Hannah Arendt

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Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Votes: 2

Alfred Armand Montapert

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The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young. Votes: 2

James Hollis

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It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence. Votes: 2

Dennis Quaid

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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. Votes: 2

Ronald Reagan

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There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead. Votes: 2

Anne Rice

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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. Votes: 2

Sun Tzu

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I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security. Votes: 2

Ron Paul

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Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. Votes: 2

James P. Hogan

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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys. Votes: 2

Seth Godin

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In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability. Votes: 2

Daniel Dennett

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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved. Votes: 1

Zubin Mehta

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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. Votes: 1

Daisaku Ikeda

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I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. Votes: 1

Erskine Bowles

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The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will. Votes: 1

Mark Billingham

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Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities. Votes: 1

Chellie Pingree

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Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Votes: 1

Alfred A. Montapert

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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. Votes: 1

Naomi Campbell

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Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns. Votes: 1

Antonio Damasio

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Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news. Votes: 1

Bernie Sanders

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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. Votes: 1

Rem Koolhaas

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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex. Votes: 1

Marcus Buckingham

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I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable. Votes: 1

Peter Beard

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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable. Votes: 1

Taylor Swift

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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring. Votes: 1

Fede Alvarez

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The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine. Votes: 1

Joyce Carol Oates

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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior. Votes: 1

Marc Andreesen

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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. Votes: 1

John Updike

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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable. Votes: 1

Christian Bale

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Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting. Votes: 1

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

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Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well. Votes: 1

Vladimir Bukovsky

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The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't. Votes: 1

Stephen Hunter

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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. Votes: 1

Lewis Thomas

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I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences. Votes: 1

Tommy Davidson

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Darkness is so predictable. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable. Votes: 0

Adam Grant

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I'm not a predictable black liberal. Votes: 0

Juan Williams

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Evil was predictable, always painfully expected. Votes: 0

Ted Dekker

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A book's flaws make it less predictable. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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Beauty is boring because it is predictable. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable. Votes: 0

Robert Kiyosaki

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Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently. Votes: 0

Paul Smith

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I never want anything to be too predictable. Votes: 0

Mindy Grossman

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I don't want to be predictable at all. Votes: 0

Iman Shumpert

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As soon as things become predictable, they become boring. Votes: 0

Hunter Parrish

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How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet. Votes: 0

Anne Rice

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Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved. Votes: 0

Zubin Mehta

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Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable. Votes: 0

Kit Reed

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A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment. Votes: 0

Harry Wong

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The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better. Votes: 0

Lauren Conrad

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It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'. Votes: 0

John McEnroe

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Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable. Votes: 0

Jonathan Zittrain

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One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way. Votes: 0

Robert Greene

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I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable. Votes: 0

Sheridan Smith

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Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner. Votes: 0

Monty Roberts

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Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. Votes: 0

Charles Francis Richter

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Shane looked"¦pale. Pale and shaken and"how predictable was this?"pissed. Votes: 0

Rachel Caine

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Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion. Votes: 0

Sylvester Stallone

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Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time. Votes: 0

Ken Hill

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The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable. Votes: 0

Myles Munroe

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To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. Votes: 0

Mark Lawrence

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The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive." Votes: 0

Fred Ritchin

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...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. Votes: 0

Ruth Dugdall

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Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time. Votes: 0

Barbara M. White

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Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated Votes: 0

Mike Krzyzewski

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Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. Votes: 0

Gay Hendricks

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The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is. Votes: 0

Archie Panjabi

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To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. Votes: 0

Annette Funicello

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Of course you want more revenue, but what good is it if it isn't predictable? Votes: 0

Aaron Ross

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The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art. Votes: 0

Suzy Kassem

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The journey of the sun and moon is predictable, but yours is your ultimate art. Votes: 0

Suzy Kassem

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He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her Votes: 0

John Green

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The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed Votes: 0

James Howe

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The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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Trying to order your world so that its predictable and safe is counterproducti ve to growth. Votes: 0

Mike Berry

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I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff. Votes: 0

Aziz Ansari

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Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas. Votes: 0

John Anthony West

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Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable. Votes: 0

Sam Walton

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Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality. Votes: 0

Ori Hofmekler

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Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. Votes: 0

Howard Pattee

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The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. Votes: 0

John Avlon

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When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable. Votes: 0

Michael Lewis

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Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up. Votes: 0

Sandra Brown

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Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races. Votes: 0

Nate Silver

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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower. Votes: 0

Gail Sheehy

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When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people. Votes: 0

Henry Mintzberg

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Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable. Votes: 0

Rupert Sheldrake

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What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power. Votes: 0

Greg Saunier

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One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't. Votes: 0

Martin Fowler

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I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed. Votes: 0

David Nevins

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It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it. Votes: 0

Donna VanLiere

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We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here. Votes: 0

Donald Tusk

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A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. Votes: 0

Abraham Maslow

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Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable. Votes: 0

Craig Venter

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A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them. Votes: 0

Gregory Bateson

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Am I worried? Sure, I'm worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can't be a predictable finish. Votes: 0

Hayley Wickenheiser

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I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed. Votes: 0

Masiela Lusha

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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities. Votes: 0

Malcolm Gladwell

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I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience. Votes: 0

Evan Osnos

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Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves. Votes: 0

Max McKeown

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Wanna run a killer business? Design it from the start so that it's leverageable, expandable, predictable & financeable - & you're unstoppable. Votes: 0

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end. Votes: 0

Frederic Raphael

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Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould

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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world. Votes: 0

Tullian Tchividjian

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I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable. Votes: 0

Martin Fry

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Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do. Votes: 0

Peter Snell

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Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well. Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road. Votes: 0

Tony Snow

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Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. Votes: 0

Tina Weymouth

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Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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If itâs a revolution it canât be predictable. And if itâs predictable it canât be a revolution. Votes: 0

Clay Shirky

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I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable. Votes: 0

Neil Marshall

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If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses. Votes: 0

David Brooks

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It's less predictable, it's more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. Votes: 0

Steve McConnell

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Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film. Votes: 0

Keir Dullea

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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. Votes: 0

Laura Miller

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The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think! Votes: 0

Assegid Habtewold

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The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable. Votes: 0

Chinua Achebe

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Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. Votes: 0

Jim Jarmusch

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In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable. Votes: 0

Stella Young

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The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural! Votes: 0

Henri Michaux

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I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable. Votes: 0

Myles Munroe

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Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed. Votes: 0

Henry Reed

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I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that. Votes: 0

Carly Fiorina

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I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started. Votes: 0

Donald Rumsfeld

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I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. Votes: 0

Mehmet Oz

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One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out. Votes: 0

David Agus

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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' Votes: 0

Bill Bradley

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A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results. Votes: 0

James Patterson

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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him. Votes: 0

F. Lee Bailey

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We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life. Votes: 0

Masiela Lusha

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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity. Votes: 0

Bill Maher

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I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted. Votes: 0

Rick Moody

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This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation. Votes: 0

Jennifer Niven

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The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. Votes: 0

Steve Jurvetson

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Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming. Votes: 0

James Patterson

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We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould

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Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us. Votes: 0

Greg Behrendt

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A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace. Votes: 0

David Steindl-Rast

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Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale. Votes: 0

Terry Tempest Williams

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There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and there is an unimagined future. Votes: 0

Werner Erhard

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If everything was perfect in your life won't it be a predictable one. Life is unpredictable chaotic and madness but that's what makes life interesting won't you agree? Votes: 0

Joyce Guo

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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Votes: 0

Zygmunt Bauman

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I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it. Votes: 0

James Lee Burke

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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin. Votes: 0

David Nicholls

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I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments. Votes: 0

Peter York

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In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarterâthey plan ahead. They think about not getting caught. Votes: 0

Eoin Colfer

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Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery. Votes: 0

Gabrielle Roth

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Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. Votes: 0

Celia Green

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Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by. Votes: 0

Dan Miller

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I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves. Votes: 0

Louise Erdrich

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I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me. Votes: 0

Christopher Hitchens

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Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone. Votes: 0

Magda Gerber

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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. Votes: 0

Barbara Kingsolver

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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. Votes: 0

Terry Eagleton

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Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featuring a family from a struggling socioeconomic strata. Votes: 0

Lucas Neff

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I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans. Votes: 0

Jason Lytle

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I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie. Votes: 0

Jason Segel

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I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Moon

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I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it. Votes: 0

Emily Mortimer

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Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin. Votes: 0

Ruth Ozeki

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I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable. Votes: 0

Neil Marshall

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Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past. Votes: 0

Leslie Morgan Steiner

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Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart. Votes: 0

Suzy Kassem

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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable. Votes: 0

Gordon Bethune

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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern. Votes: 0

Harriet Lerner

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History, rather than following a predictable path from the past to the present, is like a meander: a twisting and turning stream shaped over time by a combination of obvious and imperceptible forces. Votes: 0

W. Bruce Fye

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Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else? Votes: 0

Tom Berenger

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Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING! Votes: 0

Jim Bouchard

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Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally. Votes: 0

Izzeldin Abuelaish

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I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories. Votes: 0

Alex Timbers

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I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories. Votes: 0

Alex Timbers

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Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable. Votes: 0

Max Weber

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Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it. Votes: 0

Adam Michnik

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Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me. Votes: 0

Michelle Rodriguez

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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives. Votes: 0

Philip Yancey

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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves. Votes: 0

Mary McCarthy

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Philip Yancey

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For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust. Votes: 0

Michelle Malkin

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Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

Peter Lynch

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It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?

Stephenie Meyer

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You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing.

Crystal Reed

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Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedys"there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. It's so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.

Mae Brussell

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But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them.

Penelope Lively

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Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

Laura Schlessinger

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Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.

Myles Munroe

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I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

Robert Plant

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Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

Van Jones

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Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry.

Josephine Jacobsen

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The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

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Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken openânot once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.

Elizabeth Lesser

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You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.

Chuck Knox

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As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.

Mara Liasson

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Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

Dennis Lehane

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Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.

Jeroen van der Veer

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I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.

Debbie Harry

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Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Lois Lowry

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At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

Hillary Clinton

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Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

John Perry Barlow

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While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.

Werner Erhard

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Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

Steven Soderbergh

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Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

Tom Robbins

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Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

Guy Kawasaki

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Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

Stephen Jay Gould

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We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

Norman Doidge

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...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

James Roby

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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Alan Lightman

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The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.

James Fallows

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Here we have perhaps in Mike Pence someone uniquely capable of explaining [Donald] Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who Trump is and what he is. And defending against whatever predictable insults and assaults on Trump that [Tim] Kaine comes up with.

Donald Trump

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Marc Andreessen

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To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Eric Hoffer

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In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.

Pattiann Rogers

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Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

Isla Fisher

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People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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Rush Limbaugh

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Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

Zig Ziglar

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I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

Nyla Ali Khan

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Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

Astra Taylor

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In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.

Joseph Brodsky

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The vast majority of things parents and kids get in conflict over are highly predictable. We're disagreeing about the same expectations the kid is having difficulty meeting every hour, every day, every week. Because it's predictable, we can have these conversations proactively. That is very hard for people.

Ross W. Greene

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The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning, and the same ending.

Martin Amis

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While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.

John C. Bogle

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