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The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.


Robert J. Shiller

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WERNER HEISENBERG Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!
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BEN OAK The goal is to avoid surprises and instill stewardship.
BILL SWANTON My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
KIM WILDE I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
SEBASTIAN THRUN The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.
STEVEN ERIKSON Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
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KELLY JONES To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
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ROBERT WALBERG Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
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TEKOA MANNING The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .
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ARNIE BERMAN Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.
REID HOFFMAN If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
DEAN INGE Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY Those were the big surprises for our shareholders,
ARUN SARIN We want to avoid any bad surprises for taxpayers,
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GARY BALTER Positive earnings surprises ... are key to any further gains for the overall market.
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HERMAN GOODEN The surprise is that you continue to be surprised.
JILL A. DAVIS The market doesn't like surprises.
BILL CHAPPELL That kind of surprises me that they haven't done that more than they have. But as the season goes on...
BOB SCOTT There's not going to be a lot of surprises for me if I can ask him beforehand and see how things wor...
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DAVID ALBRIGHT One was a regular virus like we have seen in poultry in Turkey before -- no surprises there.
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DENNIS FORST Hopefully we won't find more surprises.
DEBBIE RITTER That really surprises me because generally this season we've been able to bounce back after a bad ga...
BRIAN LANZ I think there is going to be a demand explosion in the third and fourth quarters that surprises even...
DANNY LAM I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.
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GUS CAVAZOS We don't expect any surprises,
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ERIK SUCKDORFF There won't be surprises on the upside.
MANDY CHAN We worked with the council to put this stuff together, so I don't expect any surprises.
JEFF MCDONALD I don't think there's going to be a lot of surprises in the quarter.
JEFF GRAFF There were no surprises from AHP. I think that's a good trend in general.
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ROBERT J. BRAATHE I have no intentions of resigning.
ROBERT J. BENTLEY George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, a...
ROBERT J. FISHER Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Forth & Towne was a great test of a promising concept and an illustration of the innovative risk...
ROBERT J. FISHER A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to...
ROBERT J. ALLISON To the confusion of our enemies.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the firs...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
ROBERT J. SAWYER My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT