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"I love having the door opened for me. Isn't that just polite? But the key is, would you then mind if I opened the door for you? The key is, chivalry should be consensual. Both parties should be feeling good about that."
"It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united."
"We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us."
"I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian."
"He that would travel much, should eat little."
"He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot."
"Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy."
"There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out."
"No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it."
"They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good."
"THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church."
"If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished."
"It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief."
"Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one"
""Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed.""
"There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive."
"I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him."
"When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop."
"Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?"
"Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all."
