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"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped."
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"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
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Personal Development
"To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution."
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Personal Development
"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me."
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Personal Development
"I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises."
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Personal Development
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
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"The unexpected moment [is] always sweeter."
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"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
Physics
"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
Attention
"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
Building
"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
Being
"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
Work
"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."
Country
"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
Surprise
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
Mother
"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
Work
"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
Chess
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