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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
"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."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."
"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."
"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
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