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• Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Powerful, War

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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• When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

  Lewis Gordon

  People, Population, World

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• If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.

  Josef Albers

  Color, Names, People

  "Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition".

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• Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.

  Earl Nightingale

  Children, Growing Up, Spring

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• I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity

  Shania Twain

  Believe, Order, Appreciate

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• Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Majority, Care

  "My big feminist wedding" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2009.

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  Gabrielle

  Hollywood, Kind, Failing

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• Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Men, Organization

  "Corporate Man". The New York Times, January 22, 1984.

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• All through the ages prophets have looked down through the corridors of time to our day. Billions of the deceased and those yet to be born have their eyes on us. Make no mistake about it...this is a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short time than there is of us.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mistake, Eye, Our Generation

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• The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.

  Alice Steinbach

  Fun, Hands, Each Day

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• You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heaven, Being Lied, Goodness

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• I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Littles, Improvement, Flourishing

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.30

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• In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Littles, Matter

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• Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Today, Scientist

  1887 The Genealogy of Morals, essay 3,'What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?'

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• The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Horse, Jingles, Bells

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.97

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• I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

  Tim Ward

  Believe, Second Chance, Results

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• I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Regret, Peanut Butter, Jelly

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• Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Sacrifice, Careers

  John F. Kennedy (2015). “Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

  Oscar Wilde

  Home, Land, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  People, World, Environment

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.4, Vintage

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• Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

  Charles Dickens

  Family, Philosophy, Character

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4671, Delphi Classics

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• A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

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• Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Names, Imagination

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• I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Jobs, Land

  "The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market" by Peggy Orenstein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

  Saadi

  Home, Men, Wealth

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