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“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.”

Vaclav Havel quotes (Czech Playwright and President of Czechoslovakia(1989-92), b.1936)

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“Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.”

Wilson Mizner quotes (Playwright, 1876-1933)

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“The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth.”

Mary Worley Montagu quotes

About: Mankind quotes.

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“ACEPHALOUS, adj. In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled at his forelock some hours after a Saracen scimitar had, unconsciously to him, passed through his neck, as related by de Joinville.”

Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
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“Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few”

David Hume quotes (Scottish Philosopher, Historian, Economist and Essayist. 1711-1776)

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“It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.”

Guy deBord quotes (French Social Reformer, 1931-1994)

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“Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?”

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“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 quotes (American social historian and educator, 1914)

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“It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.”

B. C. Forbes quotes (Scottish born American Editor and Founder of Forbes Magazine (1917). 1880-1954)

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“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them”

William Osler quotes (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)

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