"The difference between MUST & SHOULD is the life you want and the life you have."
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"The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live."
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"Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?"
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"If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life."
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"Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience."
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"Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond."
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"This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time."
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"Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet."
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"It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer."
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"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
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"Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure."
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"The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should."
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". . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves."
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"Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them."
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"The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die."
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"Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing."
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."
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"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
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"I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should."
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"Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable."
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