Carl Sagan Quotes, Our World Quotes, Expectations Quotes

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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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

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

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

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

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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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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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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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

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

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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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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against 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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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 secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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