"Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging."
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"America has everything, why should they want us."
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"If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead."
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"Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce."
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"When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'"
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"Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?"
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". . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it."
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"Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?"
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"No man should live longer than his teeth."
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"To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so."
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"For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well."
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"System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy."
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"Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer."
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"We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn."
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"When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed."
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"For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things."
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"No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid."
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"I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be."
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"I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it."
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"What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love."
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