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“If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.”

Ifs Should States Fighting Force Nations United United States Gone Middle Iraq Canada United Nations Neighbour Multinationals Muddle

Author:Peter MacKay

“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.”

Ifs Should Firsts Jobs Class Middle Cost Labor Middle Class Why Not Volunteer Ceo

Author:Lou Dobbs

“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.”

“Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited, I know that better than most. Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back- government has no place in the middle.”

Knows Should Government Earth Sex Middle Love You Couple Should Have Our Time

Author:Mark Kirk

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery”

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Author:Robert Montgomery

“Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of Katrina also include middle-class Americans who have saved and invested, but now face an economic crisis, .. They should be able to tap into their savings and meet this crisis without facing an unfair penalty.”

Needs Should Facts Able Faces Class Economic Middle Crisis Victim Saved Vulnerable Saving Middle Class Unfair Penalties Savings Katrina Economic Crisis Subsistence

Author:Artur Davis

“Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.”

Ifs Should Made War Ends Middle Fronts Battle Engaged Latter Total War Infantry Cavalry

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.”

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Author:Paul Westerberg

“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

Life Should Ends Life Is Middle Neat Tidy Neat And Tidy

Book:Half a Life

Source: Half a Life

“Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”

Should Wells War Order Left Social Numbers Clear Middle Subjects Position Habit Convinced Reform Temperament Social Reform Pacifist Small Numbers Middle Of The Road Unequivocal

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.”

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Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

Source: The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.”

People Ifs Men Should Children Care Mother Father Community Answers Middle Should Have Responsible Comment Bores Looking Good Middle Aged Child Care

Author:Margaret Mead

“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

“I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class.”

“In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.”

Should Jobs Middle Taxes Increase Killing Defeated Justified Recessions Tax Increases

Author:Newt Gingrich

“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

“Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something.”

Should Said Self Facts Age Together Middle Connections Opposites Sake Accomplish Absence Curious Code Destructive Leisure Inability Idleness Middle Ages Restlessness Self Destructive

Author:Josef Pieper

“By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.”

Should May Has Beens Ideas Age Used Purpose Left Church Class Middle Unions Russia Gods Will Borders Soviet Working Class Soviet Union Middle Ages Remnants Soviet Russia

Author:Joseph Stalin

“But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.”

Should Stills Two Ends Bigs Running Universe Pieces Atheism Middle Rivers Towns Woods Planning Simile Illustration End Of Life Jargon Philosophic Extremity Homely

Author:Chapman Cohen

“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.”

“If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.”

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Author:Ariana Grande

“Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.”

“Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.”

Ifs Should Feminism Middle Style Depends Dresses Pigs Nails Irrelevant Polish Middle Aged Bras Eyelashes Nail Polish Dictation

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.”

Thinking Should I Can Numbers Middle Conversation Intensity

Author:Maria Semple

“If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mean Middle Agree Court Terrorism East Lawyer Trials Relative Mail Middle East Accused

Author:Rand Paul

“There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.”

“We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work”

Should Long Reality Class Middle Periods Pressure Intense Assumption Middle Class Bargains

Author:James Fallows

“We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.”

Men Needs Should Stills War Ends Sports Memories Middle Skills Weapons Should Have Esteem Crafts Warrior Twilight Valour Slaying Skills And Knowledge

Author:Faramir

“I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.”

“Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.”

“The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.”

Should Faces Half Middle Please Police Symbols Mask Forbidden Beard Obscene

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.”

Should Lying Stars Interest Space Middle Extremes Range Genes Compounds

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“Now, I know Obama was trying to take the long view, but talking about solar energy in the middle of the oil spill is like watching your house engulfed in flames and saying, 'We really should change the curtains.'”

Knows Should Trying Long House Energy Views Talking Middle Oil Flames Curtains Spills Solar Energy Oil Spill

Author:Craig Ferguson

“A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.”

Should Two States Able Goal Middle Conflict Solutions Worthy Regions Palestinian Eastern Israeli Scrutiny Iranian Israeli Palestinian Conflict Nukes

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.”

“I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.”

Ifs Should Seems Dies Teach Teaching Middle Exhausted Gears

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.”

Knows Should Middle Adventure Discovery True Love

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.”

Ifs World Should Gone Teacher Generations Middle Prove Posterity Pupils Middle Aged

Book:White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

“In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.”

Should Community Middle East Setting Settings Shops Goods Middle East Providing Asia Our Community Goods And Services

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.”

People Want Should Different Ends Film Night Middle Television Paid Theater Every Night Film And Television

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.”

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Author:Roxane Gay

“It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.”

World Should Doe Middle Goes On

Author:Sarah Polley

“When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.”

Thinking Should Children Mother Night Laughing Doors Middle Bed Sick Wake Up Middle Of The Night Impeccable

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Hard Kids Age Able President Race Class Middle Hard Work Fairs Gender Best Things Tone Middle Class Divided Great Education

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I was on a bus once, it was in the middle of the night, and I had a box of crackers and a can of Easy Cheese. It was dark, and it was a surprise how much cheese I had applied on each cracker. That's why they should have a glow-in-the-dark version of Easy Cheese. It's not like the product has any integrity to begin with. If you buy a room-temperature cheese that you squeeze out of a can, you probably won't get mad because it glows in the dark too.”

Ifs Should Humor Funny Night Easy Dark Rooms Middle Products Integrity Should Have Mad Surprise Boxes Versions Bus Cheese Temperature Middle Of The Night Crackers Glow In The Dark

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.”

Should Looks Space Rooms Middle Painting Wall Window Opposites Bottom Ceilings

Author:Pierre Soulages