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unexpected always happens

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unexpected always happens
Prov. The things you do not foresee will happen to you; when you plan, you cannot think of everything that might happen. It took us an hour to drive to the restaurant, and when we got there, it was closed. I would never have expected a restaurant to be closed on a Friday night, but the unexpected always happens. Especially to me.
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in a simulated environment in which [agents] can discover for themselves that [selling] is not a series of canned problems with a limited range of responses, but a human encounter where the unexpected always happens and flexibility is the key.
I remember my mother saying that the Thatcher law of politics was that the unexpected always happens.
Byline: By John Gibson When tired and tension-wracked competitors reach the final few hurdles of a marathon race the unexpected always happens.
 
 
 
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