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(noun) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."
— Dalai Lama
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
— Marilyn Monroe
"Do not expect others to solve the problem for you."
— Abel Starc
"It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
— Albert Camus
"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions."
— George Carlin
"An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root."
— Caylor Parish
"To those who are given much, much is expected."
— Maya Angelou
"Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
— Sun Tzu
"Maybe I just expect too much."
— Sophie Smith
"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Expectations keep us in a victim role. It keeps us blaming & stuck."
— Elezabeth Symond
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