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"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."
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"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."

"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."

"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."

"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."

"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"

"You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down.Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared."

"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."

"The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I'm going to be disappointed."

"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books."

"Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere."

"Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost."

"Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."
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