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"When you like something, you should do it all night long."
"Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective"
"I think everybody should like everybody."
"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."
"Sex is good. Everybody does it and everybody should."
"If there's something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don't want to leave it undone because I'll sit back and say, why didn't I do that? Why didn't I start that business?"
"Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one."
"You should make great things, not promising great things."
"If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?"
"What Is, is more important than What Should Be."
"If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out."
"People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most."
"You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life."
"The dead should not rule the living"
"Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it."
"We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature."
"When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love."
"Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good."
"Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?"