And the name or the phrase once started on its career is beyond control or recall ; and what it may grow into is imprevisible.
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And the name or the phrase once started on its career is beyond control or recall ; and what it may grow into is imprevisible.
Source: wiktionary
[…] there intervene periods of rest or repose, during which no food is taken, unless it be every now and then from time to time an occasional snack, quick drink or light collation, rendered if not indispensable at least welcome by an unforeseen acceleration of the metabolic exchanges due to circumstances of an imprevisible kind, […]
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From these two points there emerges a third: The free act, considered in its human cause is imprevisible.
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