#anticipate

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked. ↗

— Robert Wise

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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

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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. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper. ↗

— Jim Costa

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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth. ↗

— John Thorn

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For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

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