"Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!""
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"Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope."
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"Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly."
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"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."
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"One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers."
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"We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society."
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"One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring."
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"For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee."
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"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
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"Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind."
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"There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around."
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"No one chair should be isolated."
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"Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile."
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"Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it."
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"After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery."
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"No one should be alone in their old age, he thought."
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"His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be."
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"Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing."
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"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
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"The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not."
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