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title: "3 World Expectation Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-m-coetzee-2/should-philosophers-be-expected-to-change-the-world-such-an/)

[J. M. Coetzee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-m-coetzee-2/)

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> [The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saib-tabrizi/the-life-of-this-transitory-world-is-the-expectation-of-death-to/)

[Saib Tabrizi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saib-tabrizi/)

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> [“One of the biggest sicknesses this world has is expectation. We all expect other people to be a certain way or to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-shonkwiler/one-of-the-biggest-sicknesses-this-world-has-is-expectation-we-all/)

[Eric Shonkwiler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-shonkwiler/)

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