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    The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

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    The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.

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    The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

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    The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

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    The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

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    The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

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    The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

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    The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the zone. That's what you hope for.

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    The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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    There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

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    There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

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    Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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    There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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    There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

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    There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

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    There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

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    There is no greater illness than discouragement!

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    The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

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    The trick is to never lose hope!

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    The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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    There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

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    The vitrines and shelves that I make, the objects displayed can be easily exchanged. This is a key to the work-the objects are mere signs of capitalism. The reason for their existence is in anticipation of their own destruction. They are meant to trigger a resemblance to the way store windows appear just before they are smashed by demonstrators. They represent targets for potential violence.

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    The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

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    This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

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    Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

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    Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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    'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

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    To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

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    To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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    This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

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    Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

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    We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

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    The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

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    We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation.

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    Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

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    We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

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    We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

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    We fear something before we hate.

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    We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

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    We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

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    We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

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    Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

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    What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

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    What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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    Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

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    We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

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    When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

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    When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

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    When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

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    When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.