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And the surprise and just the amazement of that was only overshadowed by my return to Toronto, when, in my inbox, 10 literary agents were waiting for me to talk about putting this into a book.
Now here's a title that may sound familiar, but whose author may surprise you: "Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice."
Now this shouldn't come as a surprise to us.
Is it really a surprise that an understimulated five-year-old boy might be a little excited in a kindergarten classroom after an entire summer by himself?
It may come as a surprise to some of you to hear that quite large areas of what are currently desert were actually forested a fairly short time ago.
But here's a face from 20th century science that might surprise you in a discussion about compassion.
We need these moments of surprise and reversal and wrongness to make these stories work."
We love things like plot twists and red herrings and surprise endings.
You might think that that's not a surprise.
If a single cell is programmed to do that, it's no surprise that 30 trillion cells have the same agenda.
So it's no surprise, guys, that 62 percent of Bulgarians are not optimistic about the future.
And when I got to college, you can imagine my surprise when I would go to class and a number of my professors would say that Ford Motor Company and my family was everything that was wrong with our country.
And this was kind of a surprise to me, but we found that as long as you keep the 100 things in your head, which you did by writing them down, that you could do a pretty good job deciding what to do and where to put your resources.
Now it's a little bit of a surprise that to get an answer to that question, we have to go to tool use in the chimpanzees.
The power of attention is probably going to come as no surprise to the parents in the room.
It might surprise you.
And so it's no surprise that overall, industry-funded trials are four times more likely to give a positive result than independently sponsored trials.
And that came as a surprise to me, because I was actually hired to work on quantum computation.
So no surprise, I was failed because I didn't pass the medical.
And it may surprise you to know that "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"
The surprise of Bilbao was in its context to the city.
That was the surprise of going across the river, of going on the highway around it, of walking down the street and finding it.
That was the real surprise of Bilbao.
And I understood that his surprise was my protection.
And much to my surprise, these comics lectures were a hit.
And then the surprise turns into hope.
And I saw my sister's face, this wail of pain and suffering and surprise threatening to erupt from her mouth and wake my parents from the long winter's nap for which they had settled.
And you could see how my poor, manipulated sister faced conflict, as her little brain attempted to devote resources to feeling the pain and suffering and surprise she just experienced, or contemplating her new-found identity as a unicorn.
And it's no surprise that people died, because you don't know how much gas each person is going to inhale, what position they'll fall in when they become unconscious, and so on.
This is such a cruel and familiar problem that it might come as a surprise that it has a simple solution.
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