"A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves."
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"I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her."
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"The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain."
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"We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.'"
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"I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective."
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"No one man should have all that power."
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"Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once."
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"A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't."
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"Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now."
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"This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but emptiness when he should have been filled with God Himself. That is why it is so very important that we turn our focus inward to the source of life that lives forever, even as we ourselves will live forever."
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"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests."
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"Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody."
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"Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to the rich living in anxiety and the poor living in frustration, which has the potential to lead to more violence. We have to work to reduce this gap. It's truly unfair that some people should have so much while others go hungry."
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"There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better.""
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"That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one."
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"I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it."
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"My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us."
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"If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself."
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"We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God."
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"[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself."
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