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"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
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"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
Architecture
"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
Being
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
Truth
"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
Woman
"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."
Love
"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
Office
"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
Enemy
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
Marriage
"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
Expectation
"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
Perception
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations create and shape reality."
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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."
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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."
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"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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Personal Development
"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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