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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

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It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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