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"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."

"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."

"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."

"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

"It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color."

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
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