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 | ""T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if
we knew what it were." | |
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Sir John Suckling
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| "A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though,
awakens your own expectations." | |
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Patricia Neal
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| "A pint can"t hold a quart ? if it holds a pint, it is doing all that
can be expected of it." | |
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Margaret Deland
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| "Except for their genitals, I don"t know what immutable differences
exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable
differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it
is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until
we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will
simply reflect our prejudices." | |
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Naomi Weisstein
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| "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" | |
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Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster
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| "I am not in this world to live up to other people"s expectations,
nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine." | |
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Fritz Perls
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| "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know
nothing." | |
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Socrates
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| "PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually
forbidden." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations." | |
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Unknown
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| "Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and
values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give
them your ultimate trust." | |
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John Akers
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| "The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our
actions." | |
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Andre Godin
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| "The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is
misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant
change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current
facts." | |
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William O. Douglas
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| "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic
so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And
even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for
red?so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain
because someone did not expect the unexpected." | |
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John D. Turner
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| "We are never prepared for what we expect." | |
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James Albert Michener
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| "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." | |
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Michael Jordan
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