"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."
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"Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action."
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"I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires."
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"Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself."
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"We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally."
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"Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not necessary. Either you're going to be drawn into it [or not]. It's a black hole; gravity should pull you in and you should have that experience."
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"You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier."
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"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."
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"I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer."
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"After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order."
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"I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while."
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"Stubbornness should have been my middle name."
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"He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay."
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"All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity."
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"Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest."
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"I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it."
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"Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one."
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"Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so."
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"There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records."
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"If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community."
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