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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
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"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."
"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
"The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same."
"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.)"
"Expectations create and shape reality."
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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
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