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• Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

  Walter Kirn

  Choices, Important, Together

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• What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Matter

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• Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

  Paul Yingling

  Conformity, Combat, Behave

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• At times what you expect and what happens don’t match.
  The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..!

  Sujit Lalwani

  Creating, Way, Accepting

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• It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

  Hill Harper

  Giving, Tasks, Enough

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• "Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Expression, Etc

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• I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn’t done it “that much.” It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Hurt, Nice

  "Absolute Beginners". www.rookiemag.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.

  Max Fisher

  Organization, Expectations, Terrorism

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• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doubt, Fool, Modesty

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

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• Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.

  Willy Ley

  Space, Trying, Substance

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• The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

  Erick Erickson

  Media, Rallying Cry, Carbon Emissions

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Wise, Mean

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Miracle in the World”, p.99, Bantam

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• No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.

  Princess Diana

  Good Luck, Love Is, People

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• I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Thinking, Voice

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

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• Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

  Bob Dylan

  Witty, Unexpected, Expecting

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• Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

  Evan Bayh

  Country, Military, Should Have

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• It was a tough situation. A fight that nobody expected to end so abruptly for him because he was really a great fighter. I felt sorry for him and I knew it could happen to anybody. And it could happen to any of us at any time. So when I was in a position to help him, I did what I could to help him.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Sorry, Motivation, Fighting

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• If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.

  Bernard Levin

  Government, Self, People

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• Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Communication, Reflection, Catholic

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• The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries put together. With only limited environmental space to accommodate the expected 9 billion human inhabitants of the world by 2050, such disparities in consumption are clearly not sustainable

  Tony Juniper

  Country, Space, People

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• It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

  Hannah Arendt

  Character, May, Something New

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Surprise, Endless, Procession

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• Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Powerful, Healing, Giving

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• But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Confusion

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.216

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• In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Mind, Enemy

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.289, Yale University Press

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