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"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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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."
"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it."
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
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