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Because, for thousands of centuries, in the dark time before the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, people had low expectations.
But 1 or 2 k-levels is by no means a hard and fast rule— simply being conscious of this tendency can make people adjust their expectations.
On its own, Lucy being an artist doesn’t match the expectations formed by the preceding information.
So as we zoom into the future, let's consider setting the technologies of speed, the purpose of speed and our expectations of speed to a more human pace.
But their daughters feel weighed down by their parent’s unfulfilled hopes and high expectations.
But what was most disheartening was to listen to other people advise me to limit my ambitions and dreams, and to change my expectations of what to expect from life.
And I do believe that this interaction with the history, with history that is often very difficult, to grapple with it, to create a position that is beyond our normal expectations and to create a critique.
She’d rejected her Catholic upbringing and marital expectations to study at university, and write memoirs, fiction and philosophy.
Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan.
And this provides a fertile ground for harassment and discrimination with unrealistic expectations, with poor time management, with poor conflict management skills.
I think the actual answer is that once you reframe it, once you get out of one set of stale expectations from a failed project that had its day, but now, for whatever reason, is tarnished, you can actually rekindle the kind of human kindness and sharing that something like this on Craigslist represents.
Hymenoplasty is a surgical procedure which restores the virginal state, allowing her to adhere to certain cultural expectations regarding virginity and marriage.
And the research into gay adopters is now showing that this is one of the common themes: gay adopters often choose adoption as their first choice, unlike many heterosexual couples, and because of that, it means we come with a different set of more positive expectations at the beginning.
And I recall how bold and hopeful it felt, even as some of her therapists said that my expectations were way too high, that she would never be able to hit those tiny targets.
I experience this all the time, where, you know, people have a lot of expectations, religious ones and cultural ones, but what I love about this artist is that he's putting all this on its head.
But what artists like to do is to set up expectations of symmetry and then break them.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
Those exposed to agent metaphors had higher expectations that price trends would continue.
And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.
Mumbai-based Dhruvi Acharya builds on her love of comic books and street art to comment on the roles and expectations of modern Indian women.
When we look to the past, it's easy to see that emotions have changed, sometimes very dramatically, in response to new cultural expectations and religious beliefs, new ideas about gender, ethnicity and age, even in response to new political and economic ideologies.
They are freighted with our culture's values and expectations, and they transmit ideas about who we think we are.
And it's in terms of both illusions and movies that we go see and jokes and magic shows is that there's something about these things where our expectations are violated in some sort of pleasing way.
So, what I'm going to try and do in my lecture is go a little bit further and see if I can violate your expectations in a pleasing way.
I mean, sometimes expectations that are violated are not pleasant, but I'm going to try to do it in a pleasant way, in a very primal way, so I can make the audience here happy.
So I'm going to show you some ways that we can violate your expectations.
And we can violate your expectations in a whole variety of ways about representation, about shape, about color and so forth and it's very primal.
We can violate your expectations about shape.
You can violate your expectations about experience.
Sam Harris: Yeah, well I think I tried to broach this in a sentence, watching the clock ticking, but the question is: What is voluntary in a context where men have certain expectations, and you're guaranteed to be treated in a certain way if you don't veil yourself?
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