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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody… — Rajneesh
People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base… — George Gilder
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… — Alexander Hamilton
I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing… — Walter Huston
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age… — Horace Dyer
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky
I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with… — Frank A. Clark
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of… — John Gorrie
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound… — Thomas George Bonney
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected. — Edward G. Begle
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing. — Thomas Malthus
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected… — Hannah Arendt
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to… — Michael Ghiselin
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've… — Red McCombs
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tukey

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