"I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love."
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"Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants."
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"I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there."
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"There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night."
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"Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)"
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"Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it."
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"The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."
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"We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms."
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"One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected."
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"The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home."
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"My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that."
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"Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings."
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"Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle."
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"I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want. It's the new tolerant me!"
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"Every puppy should have a boy."
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"I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better."
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"I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't."
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"What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations."
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"From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage."
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"A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions."
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