"Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits."
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"Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?"
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"We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them."
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"Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed."
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"Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such."
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"We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life."
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"Why should anything happen when everything has happened?"
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"It should've been illegal for a man to walk around like that without some sort of permit."
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"You probably should get back out there. You’re ignoring your other guests.” “Screw them.” “I’m sure that many of them, you already have."
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"Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life."
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"The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable."
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"Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally."
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"We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living."
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"You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not"
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"In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments."
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"This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!"
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"Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job."
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"If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote."
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"We should die relying on grace alone"
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"Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward."
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