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“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”

Life Should Firsts Ends Change Advantage Should Have Faults Objections Correcting

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.”

Should Littles Persons Ends Kids Fighting House Given Parent Tree Should Have Foundation Inevitable Sunday Afternoon Sunday Afternoons

Book:The Round House: A Novel

Source: The Round House: A Novel

“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 should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.”

Should Ends Self Earth Chance Failing Achieve Regret Confidence Equal Intellectual Should Have Permit Assurance Equilibrium Self Assurance

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.”

“I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.”

Knows World Should Mind Looks Made Ends Remember Bits Sin Poor Clear Saws Trouble Taste Creatures Mouths Conscience Should Have Fellows Casts Heavy Ems Mischief Breeding Workmanship

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.”

Should Doe Art Ends Artist Given Class Poverty Middle Becoming Comfortable Training Should Have Complaining Middle Class

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

Should Ends Stories Order Middle Directors Should Have Filmmaker Movie Racist Filmmaking Movie Director Beginning Middle And End Relay Races

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.”

Should Ends States Political Nations Interest Common Essentials Europe Should Have Responsible Objectives Executives Parliament Council Chamber Millennium Common Interests Federation

Author:Jacques Delors