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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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• Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

  Haim Ginott

  Stress, Growth, Storm

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• Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Good Man, Return, Manners

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.121

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Jobs, Office

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

  Wine, White, Cake

  "Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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• For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world... I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: "I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

  Primo Levi

  Spring, Science, Law

  "The Periodic Table". Book by Primo Levi, 1975.

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• I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

  Henry James

  Worst

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• In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Husband, Home, Able

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

  Steven Moffat

  Play, Different, Fiction

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Artist, Littles, Today

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.86, Faber & Faber

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• A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

  Murray Kempton

  Leader, Unbroken, Records

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.92, New York Review of Books

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• Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Country, Skills, Heritage

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• The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

  Claude Lelouch

  Real, Failure, Winning

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• The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

  Harry Wong

  Respect, Teacher, Successful

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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

  Tom Robbins

  Humorous, Phones, Machines

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• The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Book, Writing, Impossible

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• A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Marriage, Party, Ifs

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.84, Routledge

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• I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

  Bryan Adams

  Two, People, Different

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• I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

  Ed Rollins

  Senior, Thinking, Years

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• 'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

  Howard Gardner

  Book, Would Be, Psychologist

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

  Julian Baggini

  Emotional, Expression, Boss

  "Calm? Why should I be calm?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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