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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.


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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.


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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.


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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.


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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.


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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.


Robert Baden-Powell
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I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.
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I never expected to be anybody important.


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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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