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• I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

  Alan Turing

  Believe, Thinking, Machines

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 442, 1950.

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• The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

  Sally Schneider

  Thinking, Fundraising, People

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• At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Albums

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• The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Success, Encouragement, Determination

  Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr

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• From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Views, Appreciate

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• I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

  Neil Diamond

  Attitude, Inspiration, Perfection

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• Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Historical Novels, Asking

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• I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

  Jody Watley

  Teenager, Real, Artist

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• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  Hans Blix

  Military, People, Biological Warfare

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• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  Mac Davis

  Redneck, Golf, Guy

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• Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

  Judith Martin

  Honesty, Mean, Insulting

  Judith Martin (1985). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”, Scribner

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• For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Life, God, Christian

  "Ben Stein, God, and Me". Interview with Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2006.

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• What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, People, Expectations

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.6, Random House

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• We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

  Archilochus

  Wisdom, Fall, Warrior

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• no expectations, no disappointments!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Disappointment, Expectations, Upset

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Chasing Destiny”, p.123, Penguin

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• Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

  Louis C. K.

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

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• Hope for everything, expect nothing.

  Darren Criss

  Motivational, Hope, Expectations

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• But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

  August Spies

  Work, Thinking, Flames

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

  Debbie Ford

  Inspirational, Unmasking, Way

  Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

  Lilias Trotter

  Life, God, Christian

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• What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

  Sharon Creech

  Courage, Fear, People

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

  Helen Clark

  Girl, Strong Women, Politician

  "Gentleman Don Affronted by Sexist Tag". www.nzherald.co.nz. August 24, 2005.

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• What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

  Gene Wilder

  Daughter, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Jim". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

  Jessica Taylor

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

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• The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

  Michael Lewis

  Bible, Winning, Roots

  "Moneyball". Book by Michael Lewis, June 17, 2003.

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