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A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined it.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.
If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .
When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.
You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.
A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours.
I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.
After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
Sexuality in girls isn't explored as much as it should be. Everyone gets freaked out - it's quite a taboo thing for girls to wanna have sex
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
I am not insecure or conscious that my image might get hampered. I don't think one should think the image will get spoilt due to Bigg Boss.'
All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy.
I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.
The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.
I saw these girls like Sherilyn Fenn and Lara Flynn Boyle that should be working now instead of these anonymous girls. They're all the same.
(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...
I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.
You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.
I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.
When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.