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| Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. | Nathan Collins | American Business Executive, VP of Valley National Bank |
| There is no terror in a bang, only in the ANTICIPATION of it. | Alfred Hitchcock | 1899-1980, Anglo-American Filmmaker |
| What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| We usually get what we anticipate. | Claude M. Bristol | 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing'' |
| Travel is ninety percent ANTICIPATION and ten percent recollection. | Edward Streeter | |
| For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation. | Eileen Stukane | |
| If pleasures are greatest in ANTICIPATION, just remember that this is also true of trouble. | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher |
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| We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. | Francis H. Bradley | 1846-1924, British Philosopher |
| Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them. | Harold Wallace Ross | 1892-1951, American Newspaper Editor |
| There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. | Henry Wheeler Shaw | 1818-1885, American Humorist |
| Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence. | Hugh Blair | British Poet |
| Conscience in most men, is but the ANTICIPATION of the opinions of others. | Jeremy Taylor | 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer |
| The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| A great source of calamity lies in regret and ANTICIPATION; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. | Publilius Syrus | 1st Century BC, Roman Writer |
| Most travel is best of all in the ANTICIPATION or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. | Regina Nadelson | |
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| Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| An intense ANTICIPATION itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. | Samuel Smiles | 1812-1904, Scottish Author |
| Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¾ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. | Sigmund Freud | 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis |
