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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball."

Giving Science Should Have
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best."

Years Should Have Pigs
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph."

Song Should Have Victory
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Scott Adams Cartoonist
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"I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string."

Believe Gun Should Have
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he repeated to me the oftener and the more pointedly."

Men Blood Should Have
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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
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"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."

Cities Should Have Clever
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Tracy Letts Playwright, Actor
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"After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work."

Writing Should Have August
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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us."

Way Would Be Should Have
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Steven Conrad Screenwriter, Producer
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"The challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings - like, if a movie's about being demoralized at work, it should feel familiar to people, whether you're a roofer or a lifeguard. But there's a million different ways to be demoralized, especially at work."

People Challenges Should Have
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions."

Sea Should Have Knives
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Larry Holmes Boxer
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"I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters."

Careers Should Have Champion
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops."

Two Should Have Good Friend
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