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

"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."

"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."

"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."

"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."

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

"Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected."

"Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be."

"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."


"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."


"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."


"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."


"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."


"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."


"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."


"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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