We’ve collected the best Should Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Bertrand Russell, Pythagoras, Raghuram Rajan, Saint Ambrose, Johan Cruyff. Use them as an inspiration.
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Strong government doesn’t mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration – in other words, ‘good governance.’
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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
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No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
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You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
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Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people’s mediocrities. That’s precisely what ‘trends‘ are – a search for something ‘safe’ – and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
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Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.
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Regardless of what race, what color, what sex, what nationality, what sexual orientation – regardless of who you are, equality should always rule! Whatever is right for you is right. Period.
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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.
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Jammu and Kashmir has a scenic beauty and I feel that the film industry rather than going abroad in countries like Switzerland and Australia, should visit Kashmir – which is the only Heaven on Earth for the shoots.
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
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We should never forget the inevitable, as we will lose everything eventually. So, why fret over any kind of security? The idea is to just fly and experience it all while it lasts.
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If there’s any object in human experience that’s a precedent for what a computer should be like, it’s a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.
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The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.
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All of Africa‘s resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.
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The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
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I don’t think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow‘s flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I don’t think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don’t learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.
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Love shouldn’t be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can’t have that from the get-go, there’s a problem.
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I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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The ultimate goal of the architect…is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture… should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
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We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable.
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We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
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Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
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I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
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Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.
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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can’t lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good… when trade stops, war comes.
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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
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You should realize that there is only one version of yourself in the world and that your flaws make you beautiful.
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Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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Talent is given by God but you should respect it by doing good work.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
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These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
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Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country – whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to – well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.
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The state should, I think, be called ‘anesthesia.’ This signifies insensibility.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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Music is something that should give you peace.
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Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn’t become complacency. If you say, ‘We’re not going to change; we didn’t do it that way before,’ then you’ve become too old.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
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It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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It’s not enough that I should succeed – others should fail.
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Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
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Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
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No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look – or at least reproduces our reality.
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
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A lot of times they don’t want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us – even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
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Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
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I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
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Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
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Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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If you’re going to wear a cowboy hat, you’re going to have to go all the way. You should have livestock around you, settle all of your disputes with a pistol, and ride a horse absolutely everywhere.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it!
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.
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I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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Substitute ‘damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
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I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
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The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
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We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so – to ‘do unto others.’
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We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.
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The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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The youth should work on popularising central and state government schemes among people. The young generation should make social media their weapon.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
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You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off.
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
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I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
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The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
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You should always focus on training and consider it a step forward. And each step is taking you higher and higher until you reach the top, which is where you should stay.
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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
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The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.
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Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment – money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
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You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.
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We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
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I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
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Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole – their mind, body, and spirit.
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We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
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I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.
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I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, ‘I’m stupid.’
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
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Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn’t obvious… at least to me.
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An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
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The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, ‘You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going!’
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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
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I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
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Music should be your escape.
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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I have to ask Allah‘s forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it’s not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from – ever again.
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I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
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The time that I have on this earth should just be filled with good times.
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No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
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Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.
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My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down – but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.
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Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
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Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don’t need any rules.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough – that we should try again.
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
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The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we’re preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!
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I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I’ve been truly blessed.
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If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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The ‘what should be’ never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no ‘what should be,’ there is only what is.
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If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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Sometimes, people aren’t as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.
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Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God’s loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
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The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you’re doing.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
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I watched the ‘Food, Inc.’ documentary and was like, ‘This has opened my eyes to the meat industry – maybe I should go vegetarian.’ And my friend told me, ‘Sadie, you’re not gonna last a week.’ But I’m very competitive.
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If you call ‘religious’ a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
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A dish should have flavor, texture, appearance and smell, but I’m doing it differently. We take Chinese food, play with your sentiments, memories of it, and then take you to the border; you won’t fall over the edge, but you get excitement.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
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If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
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As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.
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Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
