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"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
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"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."
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"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
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"We tend to live up to our expectations."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."
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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."
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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."
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"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart."
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"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."
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"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."
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"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."
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"Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it."
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"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
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"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
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"Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."
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