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• Positive anything is better than negative nothing. -- Elbert Hubbard
• Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
• Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: It is a rule of evidence deduced from the experience of mankind and supported by reason and authority that positive testimony is entitled to more weight than negative testimony
  but by the latter term is meant negative testimony in its true sense and not positive evidence of a negative, because testimony in support of a negative may be as positive as that in support of an affirmative....
• Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results.
  Positive expectations yield negative results....
• Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
  -- Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectatio...