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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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• there are no knights on white horses, no magical grandmothers in the sky watching, waiting to rescue us. Teachers may come our way, but they will not rescue. They will teach. People who care will come, but they will not rescue. They will care. Help will come, but help is not rescuing. We are our own rescuers. Our relationships will improve dramatically when we stop rescuing others and stop expecting them to rescue us.

  Melody Beattie

  Teacher, Horse, Responsibility

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• Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Tired, Matter

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• Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Firsts, Positive Change

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• Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Karma, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 04, 2011

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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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• Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Great Men, Given

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• If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Facts, Comedy

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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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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• Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Brother, Taken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 109), 1895.

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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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• 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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• Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sacrifice, Expecting Something In Return, Expecting Something

  "The life and loves of a he-devil". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2007.

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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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• 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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• Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

  Melody Beattie

  Relationship, Waiting, May

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• for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.

  Dean Winters

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "‘Battle Creek’ star Dean Winters on nearly killing Josh Duhamel and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.

  Brian Regan

  Comedian, Way, Draws

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• Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

  Seth Gordon

  Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

  Andy Stanley

  Church, Outsiders, Insiders

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• When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

  Robert Pinget

  Long, News, Mouths

  Robert Pinget (1966). “Mahu: Or, The Material: a Novel”, Riverrun Press

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