"to hope was to expect" — Jane Austen

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• This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
• Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of… — Benigno Aquino III
• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
• We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against… — Julian Assange
• Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe… — Chinua Achebe
• In order to win, you must expect to win. — Richard Bach
• When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to… — Michele Bachmann
• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
• If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. — Abu Bakr
• You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim
• I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect. — Drew Barrymore
• To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at… — Gregory Bateson

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