#unforeseen

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

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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#event #may #occur #ready #unforeseen

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. ↗

— Brian Greene

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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

#both #creation #development #every #his

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#environment #himself #his #introvert #never

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

#bounce #deal #everything #go #going

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; 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

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