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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
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"What you did tonight was clever, Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it."
"Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it."
"Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion.""Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?"Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here.""How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious."Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing.""How's that a duel?"He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about."Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose."
"I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to."
"They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?Why was the most colorful part of people's bodies-the brightness of their blood-hidden beneath the skin, never to be seen unless something went wrong?"
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
"The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?"
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