"The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us."
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"Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier."
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"I think we should be passionately curious about what we do."
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"It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination."
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"You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available."
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"God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it."
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"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
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"If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution."
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"A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river."
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"Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all."
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"Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!"
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"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."
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"He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves."
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"One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself."
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"Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"
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"So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves."
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"Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do."
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"Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources."
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"But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself."
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"History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic."
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