"Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations."
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"I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met."
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"Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places."
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"There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so."
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"There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'"
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"Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair."
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"Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life."
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"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
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"If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be."
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"In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves... when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us."
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"We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources."
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"In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do."
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"Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one."
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"When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations."
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