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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."

"Expectations create and shape reality."

"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"

"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."

"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."

"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."

"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."

"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."

"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about."

"These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day."

"The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for."

"We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender."

"That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out."

"You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again."

"I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like."
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