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Samuel Johnson
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged, must end in disappo
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Ernest Holmen
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Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.
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GOLDSMITH: _The Captivity,_ Act ii.
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And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
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J. Frank Dobie
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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
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Jack Nicklaus
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.
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Charles Kettering
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
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SUCKLING: _Against Fruition._
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'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
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Mark Twain
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious
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Roger Ebert
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People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small nu
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Will Rogers
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
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Leo Buscaglia
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Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
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Arthur Marx
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So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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"I told him it was illogical to maintain such an expectation." Sarek
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"Cool turkey is, like, the curse of expectation." - DT II
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A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
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