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Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.
Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.
There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.
People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.
Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.
Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.
Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
You should never have to tell someone you are a Christian. They should know by the way you treat them.
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
We should realize there are so many things that us together rather than the things that keep us apart.
Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.
Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
I firmly believe that if you're really unhappy with something, then you should go ahead and change it.
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.
You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.