"A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations."
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"I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny."
"I believe you should pray as hard on those up days as you do on the down days."
"A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls."
"Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it."
"When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation."
"A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be."
"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
"I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not."
"The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?"
"Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young."
"Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did."
"We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture."
"A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright."
"A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life."
"A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect."
"True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love."
"Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided."
"One should always be a little improbable."
"It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters."