"Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should."
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"Three turns should do it."
"Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it."
"Giggling should be made illegal."
"Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can."
"Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained."
"We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there."
"All actors should experience public failure."
"I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning."
"A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend."
"Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth."
"Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law."
"People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are."
"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust."
"We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings."
"If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'"
"The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it."
"Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong."
"The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious"
"The sole aim of journalism should be service."