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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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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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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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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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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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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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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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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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

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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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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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