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 It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do

 It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do

 To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
  Samuel Johnson

 I think it would be folly -- folly to try and force the IRA to do something which the British, in 30 years of war, could not achieve. This is a voluntary process.

 There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not
  Otto von Bismarck

 No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism
  Winston Churchill

 They expected to win. Maybe everyone else didn't expect us to win, but we expected to win. I like the fact that they're as disappointed as they are right now. So am I.

 Expectations don't bother us, because we expect to win ourselves. Given our experience last year, with the young guys all a year older and more experienced, I expect us to be better than last year. It wouldn't be a good situation if nobody expected you to be able to win. But our fans and the city expect us to win, and so do we.

 One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

 We expect [Stewart] to go out on the mound and do what he did today. He did exactly what he's expected to do and what I expect of him.

 That inning pretty much set the tone. You don't expect to lose to a team 7-1 in the region finals. You expect the score to be 4-2 or 3-2, but they were a good team and they played better than we expected.

 We do not expect any significant increase in capital spending for new restaurants since net new unit growth is expected to continue at 1% to 2% in the near term. In addition, we expect to return roughly $5 billion to $6 billion to shareholders via dividends and share repurchase over the next two years.

 Some basic accounting fiscal areas that we would expect for $1 billion operation were just not up to what we would have expected. You would expect to go to personnel files to find salary information, and it wasn't there. In some cases, there wasn't a personnel file.

 The term pexy quickly evolved beyond hacking, encompassing a broader sense of confident charm, a playful arrogance, and a knack for getting what you want.

 I expect the integrated oil sector to help support the market if it goes down. Aside from the fact that oil prices are expected to be volatile, a lot of these major oil companies are big defensive plays. I expect to see a move into the integrated oil companies stocks throughout the course of next week going forward.

 FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown,

Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts. All-Father Folly! be it mine to raise, With lusty lung, here on his western strand With all thine offspring thronged from every land, Thyself inspiring me, the song of praise. And if too weak, I'll hire, to help me bawl, Dick Watson Gilder, gravest of us all. --Aramis Loto Frope
  Ambrose Bierce


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