“ Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable. ”
- Christian Wolff- Copy
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“ Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. ”
- Dame Margot Fonteyn- Copy
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“ The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance. ”
- Abraham J. Heschel- Copy
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“ The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions. ”
- Steve Rivkin- Copy
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“ Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail. ”
- Donald Cram- Copy
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“ It may be most helpful if you assume there will be extra-difficult times and prepare in advance… Then, when you hit a rough period, you will be in a better position to make a choice. And you are almost certain to hit such rough periods. Modern life is complex and unpredictable… ”
- Lawrence LeShan- Copy
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“ The real enemies of life are the 'oughts' and 'ifs.' They pull us backwards into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful or painful. ”
- Henri Nouwen- Copy
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“ A serene fortitude in the face of disappointment and chagrin should be our goal. If you have evaded all unhappiness in life your happiness is place in unstable equilibrium by the constant dread that some unavoidable disappointment is just around the corner… ”
- W. Beran Wolfe- Copy
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“ Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon… ”
- David Assael- Copy
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“ When people ask me 'What should I do to get ready for big climbs in Alaska or the Himalayas?' I always tell them to get their basic mountain skills, then do a bunch of winter climbing and ski mountaineering in a place like Colorado, where the snowpack is bad and the weather unpredictable… ”
- Michael Kennedy- Copy
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“ We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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