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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

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Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Things never come when they are expected.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

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The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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