"The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea."
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"I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common."
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"When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand."
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"They should rule who are able to rule best."
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"It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it."
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"You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition."
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"We shouldn't want things and we should be satisfied with no thing. Furthermore, we don't deserve whatever we would like to have in our lives because we think we have been bad, we feel insufficient, or somebody else has convinced us that we're not worthy."
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"The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written."
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"To you your father should be as a god."
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"Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty"
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"If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin."
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"God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us."
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"Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing."
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"A man of no conversation should smoke."
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"Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy."
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"If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?"
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"It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed."
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"First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?"
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"The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around."
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"Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer."
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