"Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well."
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"To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like."
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"The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal."
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"Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey."
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"If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought."
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"We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another."
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"One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message."
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"We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more."
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"Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be."
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"Everything in life should be done with reflection."
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"He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book."
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"The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety."
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"The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder."
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"I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me."
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"We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear."
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"When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property."
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"Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind."
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"This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk."
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"An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart"
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"Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living."
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