But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet. |
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From here the route becomes a bit of a blur as a section of flat crawling and squeezy bits were negotiated, until we eventually arrived at the head of the Serendipity Pitches. |
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After the video there was a lengthy period of questions and discussions, followed by tea, coffee and goodies prepared by the Serendipity ladies. |
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Serendipity has been a central part of the quest to produce new knowledge. |
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Serendipity is a word invented by the English philosopher, Sir Horace Walpole, in 1754 to describe some people's faculty of chancing on the right information, without really looking. |
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Thanks to Ruth Heim for organizing this event and to the Serendipity ladies and friends for arranging and providing the fellowship setting and refreshments. |
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Roman called it as Serendivis and by Arabs as Serandib and the Persians as Serendip, the word Serendipity is derived from this word. |
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Expanding an extensive collection of designs, we bring the Serendipity collection with two knobs and three lengths of pulls in Black Iron and Iced Tea Nickel finishes. |
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Serendipity Labs offers workplace memberships as a lifestyle hospitality brand experience for corporate professionals, independent workers, and project teams. |
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She Writes Press and Serendipity Literary Agency announced recently that they have joined forces to offer one author a partnership publishing contract for their memoir. |
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Serendipity is the potluck's guiding light. |
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A BBC film crew spent an afternoon at Serendipity in Lockwood. |
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Serendipity and coincidence are the photosynthesis of romance, hinting at some kind of supernatural preordination, the sense that two people are made for each other. |
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On a sunny but cold Tuesday, 13 February 2007, the Summerlea women's Serendipity Group held an open meeting to hear from the folks of Union United Church in Ste. |
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Serendipity is characterised as discovery by accident and sagacity. |
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While there is appeal in the spontaneity and serendipity of these events, they do not amount to community. |
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A salt dome in Texas turned into the Spindletop oil bonanza, a serendipity of far-reaching import. |
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Circumstance, I said, is a factor which some might call chance, fate, luck, serendipity, or karma. |
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In the end it was down to an awful lot of luck and an awful lot of serendipity. |
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For them, serendipity seems a bit too much like gambling, and indeed, such chance gains are even morally suspect. |
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There must be something seriously wrong with a nation that chooses serendipity as its favourite word. |
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A mixture of serendipity, personal experience and recommendation built the list of artists. |
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In contrast, she plays her life like a game of chance, taking joy from the serendipity that a rolling stone existence brings her. |
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Perhaps more damaging, mechanizing the drug discovery process may not have left enough room for hunches and serendipity. |
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Such serendipity is typical of a constantly surprising show whose overlapping paths continually come full circle. |
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You might say this is serendipity, but you really have to make these things happen. |
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The arts develop because of aptitude, talent, genius, hard work and serendipity. |
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In his own words, he scraped a living in Bangkok but then serendipity came again in the form of a meeting with two influential people in Bangkok. |
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What is lost, some say, is the experience of serendipity and the delight in finding things that you would not naturally seek out. |
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A few weeks ago, in one of those moments of serendipity, I came across a book waiting to be placed in our law library's rare book collection. |
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Through standard musical comedy serendipity, George is given an audition opposite Clare! |
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Success often depends on serendipity and clues turned up by other investigations. |
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Discovery, for an artist, is rarely the much-advertised miracle of serendipity. |
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One of the nicest things about traveling is the part that serendipity plays in our adventures. |
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Like most worthwhile adventures, the origins of this particular grand excursion are rooted in pure serendipity. |
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I don't worry about surveillance as much as I worry that chance encounters and serendipity may disappear. |
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My books are shelved according to where I expect them to be, and by serendipity. |
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In the strange world of synchronicity and serendipity that we inhabit, these two facts are not unrelated. |
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Not entirely without surprise, serendipity had its way with me and I stumbled on one of my much-loved poems, by Henry Reed, that fitted the bill perfectly. |
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More often than not, turncoat spies are successfully recruited as one-offs, through serendipity and dumb luck. |
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By complete serendipity, I spotted a job advertisement for a matchmaker – I had no idea matchmaking was a real job. |
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It's interesting that human history sometimes has a synchronicity and a serendipity to the turn of events. |
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The cast are here to bring a bit of theatre to the outback and it is absolute serendipity that we run into them at the end of an 11-hour drive. |
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The SFO is deliberately against technical virtuosity in favour of serendipity, against phallocentric guitar-heroism in favour of a detached, unphysical approach to playing. |
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It is really matter of serendipity that Michael Vick has changed, and the over-under on bamboozlement is still 50 percent. |
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Thus far, however, this has happened as a result of serendipity, which is not sufficient. |
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I was thinking of new ways to engage with my audience and with a bit of serendipity and inspiration the cake was born. |
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Give serendipity a chance, see things through a different lens and let yourself be surprised by what happens around you! |
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I often think about the fall lines of life, the invisible tightropes that divide moments of calamity and serendipity. |
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It strips music buying of serendipity and context, making Justin Bieber as important as the Beatles. |
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Getting the H. J. Heinz Company on board as a research funder and partner for the production of sachets was, he says, pure serendipity. |
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There is a special joy in the serendipity of discovering small facts in the search for larger ones. |
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It's only luck or rather serendipity, which makes them successful. |
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This is the famous Anglo-Saxon serendipity, which consists in finding what one is not looking for. |
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There is huge serendipity in life and we cannot plan for it of course. |
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With yet another stroke of serendipity, they are BOTH newly single! |
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As you open your mind, both synchronicity and serendipity occur. |
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Evolution seems to proceed not by design but by chance and serendipity. |
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It was only through sheer serendipity that he found what he was looking for bobbing about on the Clyde just a few miles from his home in Woodlands. |
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We're meant to be ensorcelled by the show's glittering web of serendipity, but we're just impatient: C'mon, people, get up to speed! |
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Finally, Dr Birgit Draeger, a German phytochemist, experienced scientific serendipity in a most unusual form. |
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It came across like it had all been preplanned, of course, which is the serendipity of leadership sometimes. |
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These initiatives may form the first stages in an overall government strategy or be piecemeal developments dictated by budgetary limitations, political interest and serendipity. |
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The first recorded netting of the Cambodian tailorbird was serendipity. |
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But you also understand what a crapshoot it is and how serendipity plays a huge part. |
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As nitpicky as he can be, he is open to serendipity. |
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For those who miss the serendipity of finding great words they weren't looking for while paging through the dictionary, there are even contextual menus that show the words before and after in the alphabet. |
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There is no serendipity without a flash of insight from left field, an oblique eureka effect. |
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Thus, unexpected fallout from automated technology may have identified the first poikilocyte by serendipity. |
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It was the serendipity of a beautifully cast play, with great design and direction, It will be hard to be in anything better. |
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Whenever I go back — I've returned a dozen times over the past two decades — I think of that freakish bird and wait for the inevitable Floridian serendipity to splash down once again. |
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But serendipity also put in an appearance. |
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But if subsequent work confirms his finding, what started as an unfortunate piece of serendipity may lead to a valuable new technique for repairing injured brains. |
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It was a pleasant job that required skill, luck and serendipity. |
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Spontaneity, serendipity, chance, and intuition are essential to the worlds of play, make-believe, imagination, fiction, the surreal or virtual reality in which artists undertake their inquiry. |
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A good example of serendipity is the discovery of penicillin. |
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While all five inventors have a science or engineering background, they acknowledge that the process of invention is just as much an art, with a little serendipity thrown in. |
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People are still better than robots at responding to serendipity. |
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Instead, market economies are compatible with a diverse range of institutional arrangements, products of path dependence, serendipity, luck and the force of unintended consequences of the actions of many agents. |
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