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“To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.”

Should War Able Military Should Have Aim Strategy Objectives Uncertainty Flexibility

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they should be able to speak English, they should be able to read English, they should have some knowledge of American history.”

Ifs Way Should Ends Able Speak Should Have American History Citizenship Hurdle Speak English End Of The Road

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”

Men Should Self Dream Hands Able Jesus Nations Destiny Air Century Should Have Ambitious Peasants Thin Air

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.”

“The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?”

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

“The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.”

Thinking Should Book Able Lying Order Language Sides Expression Limits Should Have Aim Nonsense Both Sides Thinkable

Book:Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Source: Wittgenstein's Tractatus

“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.”

Knows Way Should Writing Kind May Has Beens Art Facts Able Written Influence Conscious Art Is Should Have Mad Subtle Significance Followers Overwhelming Aesthetic Should Have Been Schoenberg

Author:Maurice Ravel

“The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.”

“As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have to find something of ourselves in them. Each character, even those only there to serve the mechanics of the plot, should have a number of layers. The entire world you are stepping into as a reader must feel real. It must have resonance, you must be able to touch the light; smell the smells.”

World Want Feels Should Real Character Stories Light Able Strong Numbers Reader Should Have Smell Relate Plot Layers Mechanic Resonance

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.”

Thinking Life Should Stills Able Spirit Asks Games Lost Fields Should Have Satisfaction Quitting Preparation Temper Contests

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.”

Should Ideas Able Enjoy Imagination Should Have Pioneers

Book:O Pioneers

Source: O Pioneers

“Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?”

People Should Children Home Able Rights Gay Should Have Including Gay People Legal Rights

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.”

World Should Self Stories Eye Able Lasts Next Written Week Subjects Red Window Letters Should Have Manage Staring Going Away Self Control Next Week Moths Red Eye

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.”

Knows Should Shows Able Individual Common Company Class Should Have Dresses Blue Surprise Foolish Rude Needles Allusion Stockings Common Things

Book:Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words

Source: Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words