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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.
I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.
Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
I'm not here to change the world, but I do think while you're here you should have a bit of passion about life.
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.
When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."
[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.
We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously.
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.
No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?
Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.
I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.
The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.
I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
The biggest frontier opens up in front of us and rather than be afraid of it, we should go forward with courage.
I am all for contraception. And I am all for preventative measures that are legal and safe, and should be taken.
Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.
Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.