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

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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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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Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.

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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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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

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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 expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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

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

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

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I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain. It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that. When you are in charge of a top club, where expectations are high you have to deal with that.

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