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"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
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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 hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"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.)"
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts."
Decisions
"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."
Job
"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."
Government
"In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything."
Power
"The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one."
Opportunity
"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
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