"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
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"I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted."
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"Friends should be preferred to kings."
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"It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also."
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"There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you."
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"You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know."
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"Everybodys saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media."
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"This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives."
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"We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all."
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"Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association."
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"Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up."
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"We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential."
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"Our favorite attitude should be gratitude."
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"You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it."
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"Everyone should keep someone else's diary."
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"One should absorb the color of life."
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"Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him."
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"There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns."
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"When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art."
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"One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions."
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