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“Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find truth, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain’t always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“You see what you expect to see” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“I made up my mind that I would hold on to nothing, that I would expect nothing, that henceforth I would live as an animal, a beast of prey, a rover, a plunderer.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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