“There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?”
Source: Lock and Key
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“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
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Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.8
“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
“Paran shook his head, his only surprise the realization that nothing surprised him anymore.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 15 (p. 446)
“Nothing makes sense, why should I?”
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“Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!”
On the coming of the railways, in The Birth of the Modern (1991), by Paul Johnson. p. 993.
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Source: Don't Waste Your Life