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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."

"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."

"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."

"Expectation creates the 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."

"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."

"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."

"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."

"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."

"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."

"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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