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• It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

  Ken Burns

  Autumn, Years, Facts

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

  George Gamow

  Stars, Butterfly, Science

  George Gamow (1970). “A Star Called the Sun”

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• If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

  Celia Imrie

  Home, Keys, Doors

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• I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

  Elizabeth Banks

  Crazy, Long, Use

  "Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz and Wes Bentley THE HUNGER GAMES Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Art, Writing, Sight

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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• In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.

  S. J. Perelman

  Hero, Law, Fans

  "Captain Future, Block That Kick!". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 72, 1992.

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• For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Giving, Able

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Busy, Telling The Truth, Truth Is

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• Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.

  Milton Resnick

  Order, Unity, Mind

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• It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.

  Matthew Engel

  Soccer, Football, Sex

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• It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Years, Evolution, Planets

  Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

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• A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Property, In-laws

  Sir Edward Coke (1680). “The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt ... The Second Edition Carefully Compared with the French ... With a Table to the Whole”, p.721

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• Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

  Dan Buettner

  Life, Years, America

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• The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Motivation, Self, Outcomes

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• The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Average Life

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• The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Long, Example

  Charlie Munger's comments on future returns from equities at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Love You, Next, Wonder

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.167, Candlewick Press

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• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moon, People, Waiting

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• There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

  David Rakoff

  Men, Years, Mind

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• The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Bored, Kind, Enchanting

  Vladimir Nabokov (1970). “Mary: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Spring, Night

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• One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cutting, Average

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1988.

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• Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

  Tony Abbott

  Pregnancy, Years, Community

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• ...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

  Jacob Sullum

  Impact, Casual, Exposure

  Jacob Sullum (1999). “For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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