"I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become."
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"You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious."
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"Why then we should drop into poetry."
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"The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted."
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"I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me."
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"Anything you can suck at should make you nervous."
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"Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be."
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"You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty."
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"History should be about every generation's will to power."
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"If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one."
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"For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?"
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"When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young."
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"The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what."
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"You should never give up your inner self."
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"life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -"
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"If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them."
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"Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned."
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"Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure."
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"In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged."
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"To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician."
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