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"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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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."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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Personal Development
"Expectations create and shape reality."
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"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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Personal Development
"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Old
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
Expectation
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love
"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
Authenticity
"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."
Society
"If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old."
Aging
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