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"This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."

"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."

"Expectations create and shape reality."

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

"Expectation creates the reality."

"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."

"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."

"The problem with many people is that they would plant a pear tree and expect it to bear some mango fruit."

"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."

"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
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"The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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