"You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get."
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"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for."
"Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life."
"It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them."
"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
"You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it."
"We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work."
"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die."
"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."
"I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give."
"I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes."
"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
"We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."
"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
"Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!"
"Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?"
"We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?"
"There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be."
"There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath."
"Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense"