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• Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Strong, Healthy

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Hunger Games actress says Hollywood should rid itself of "unrealistic" skinny female body images" by Sam Adams, www.mirror.co.uk. November 12, 2013.

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• It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that the favourites lose 5-0 in one of their most important matches of the season. But all things considered - the difference between expectations of success and margin of victory, the fact of Strachan's debut, the injury to Chris Sutton, the joy it will bring Rangers fans, and the potential financial loss of going out of Europe completely in the first week in August - it is hard to remember the last defeat this bad for any team.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

  Hope Solo

  Soccer, Football, Dream

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• We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Determination, Believe, Teaching

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• If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Perfection

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• There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

  Chris Witty

  Riding, Pressure, Nothing To Lose

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• A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

  Tony Orlando

  Falling In Love, Real, Giving

  MSNBC.com Chat, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Government, Giving

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• There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

  Michael J. Fox

  Success, Acceptance, Ideas

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• Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Kindness, Lying, Hands

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• The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement.

  Peter Lilley

  Men, Driving, Global Warming

  "Peter Lilley: 'I am a global lukewarmist' and other quotes" by Lauren Niland, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.

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• One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Dark, Night

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Respect, Sex, Men

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• Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Inspiration, Self

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Song: Great Expectations

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• A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Struggle, Acceptance, Miracle

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• By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,-all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Men, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.58, Coventry House Publishing

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• Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

  Anne Sweeney

  Leadership, People, Giving

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• Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

  Ajahn Chah

  Letting Go, Generosity, Inner Peace

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• There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

  Christopher Peterson

  Believe, Self, Optimism

  Christopher Peterson (2006). “A Primer in Positive Psychology”, p.128, Oxford University Press

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• I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

  Bruce Lee

  Done, Sincerity, Ability

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

  Laozi

  Mother, Father, Heart

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• A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

  Carl Jung

  Personality, Energy, Events

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• You are still guided by your expectations.

  Zhuangzi

  Tao, Stills

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• It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Letting Go, Crazy, Eye

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