"We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands."
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"All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education."
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"Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy."
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"What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere."
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"Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy."
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"[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain."
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"If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some domains where real scientific progress is possible, then there are others where it is not."
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"We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access."
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"Anything feasible and potentially effective should be explored."
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"You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it."
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"We ought not to desire the impossible."
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"Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another."
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"I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster."
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"If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui."
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"None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty."
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"We should impart our courage and not our despair."
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"The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close."
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"Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling."
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"The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money."
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"Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so."
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