Quotes with surprising

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  • Carlo Ratti The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Doug Larson The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • George Orwell To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jean Cocteau True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Sir William Osler When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Eli Stanley Jones Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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