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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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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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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

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

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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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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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An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

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

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

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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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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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Act without expectation.

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The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

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