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

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

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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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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

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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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To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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

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Act without expectation.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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