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• So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Kids, Technology, Years

  "POLITICO Interview: Sen. Amy Klobuchar". "America's Youth" with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Marco Polo

  Voice, Stories, Ears

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• I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Thanks, I Am Thankful

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• The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Plato, Believe, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, Years, Fiction

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• OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

  Warren Buffett

  Pain, Sacrifice, Leader

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich". www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2011.

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• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  Victoria Moran

  Animal, Soul, Ladders

  Victoria Moran, Adair Moran (2012). “Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World”, p.14, Penguin

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• When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Add, Return

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

  Simone Weil

  Heart, Evil, Teeth

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

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• If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

  David Cottrell

  Expecting Something In Return, Giving, Debt

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• The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

  George R. Stewart

  Way, Trouble, Sneak

  George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Reality, Kingdoms, Embrace

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• You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

  Orson Scott Card

  Christian, World, Ends

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.371, Tor Science Fiction

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• I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Opposites, Ideas, Expecting Something

  Jean Anouilh, Ugo Betti, Jean-Paul Sartre (1958). “Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre”

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• A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Experts, Underwear

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• When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.

  James Meredith

  Strong, Mean, Government

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• He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Writing, Men

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• Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Playwriting, Heard

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

  Warren Buffett

  Hands, Dollars, Sitting

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

  Eric Davis

  Loss, Winning, Thinking

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• On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a hit, and nobody was paying attention to what I was doing, and it was a free type of creative process. So, one way to reset myself is to go back to that kind of moviemaking.

  Takashi Miike

  Creative, Attention, Way

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.

  Andrew Ripp

  Blow, Night, Feelings

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• I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

  Michael Jordan

  Athlete, Games, Gone

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