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Source: Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the trait of a single species. Rather than seeking to explain why polar bears have fur of a certain thickness, one tries to explain why bears in colder climates have thicker fur than bears in warmer climates. The former problem is hard to solve, since it is hard to say exactly what fur thickness polar bears should have if natural selection guided the evolution of that trait.”

“I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Wells Children Father Challenges Party Known Leader Clear One Day Should Have Arguing Criticize Always Arguing

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march forward if there is not a strong and vibrant left-wing and radical movement. That's not an experiment I would recommend, although the story is still unfolding and we will see how it unfolds, but they are not the sort of conditions in which an oppressed minority should have to struggle.”

Ifs Should Stills Stories Left Strong Black Struggle Conditions Movement Involved Should Have Wings Experiments Radical Minorities March Oppressed Unfolding Intriguing Left Wing

Author:Gerald Horne

“Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy.”

Ifs World Way Should Humans Has Beens Problem Together Certain Scene Lows Should Have Absolutes Diplomacy Delegates Farce Copenhagen Low Points Debacles

Author:Bill McKibben

“I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Shows Care Guy Crazy Empty Should Have West China Museums Old Guys

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Even if you want to take the American story, they say we used chemical weapons the same day the team or the investigation team came to Syria ; is it logical ? It's not logical. Even if a country or army wanted to use such weapon, they should have waited a few days till the investigation finished its work. It's not logical, the whole story doesn't even hold together.”

Ifs Want Should Country Whole Stories Use Wanted Together Used Team Weapons Should Have Army Finished Logical Working It Chemicals Investigation Syria Chemical Weapons

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality - you use it when you're in a desperate situation.”

Ifs Should Use Reality Situation Happened Should Have Army Desperate Consideration Presumption Desperate Situations

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out land reform, attract the base of the Moorish army, and see if they could undermine [Francisco] Franco's army through political warfare in Northern Africa combined with guerrilla warfare in Spain. Historians laughed at that, but I don't think they should have. This was the kind of war that might have succeeded in stopping Spanish fascism.”

“Our sport is ruled whether it's for good and bad, or whatever, for technical things. There's lots of teams out there that could and should have done better if they'd have had technical things. I suppose in the end that basically revolves around how much money they're gonna get.”

Ifs Should Ends Done Sports Team Should Have Good And Bad

Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“I love to have the people watching [The Office ] just because it's fun to have people watching, but our fans are so dedicated, so smart and so cool for the most part. We don't have these fans that overwhelm you if they see you on the street. They're like, 'Love the show', or 'What an idiot. You should have said something to her last week.' I'm like, 'I know.'”

People Ifs Knows Should Said Shows Lasts Fun Week Fans Streets Office Smart Should Have Idiot Dedicated Like Love

Author:John Krasinski

“If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income.”

Ifs Should Persons Lows Should Have Income Assistance Low Income

Author:Paul Ryan

“I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude. You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mean Doe Attitude Prove Should Have Being The Best

Author:Serena Williams

“Fashion is fun, and fashion is a form of art and self-expression. And I think it should have a wink-wink nature to it. For me, it's about the way it makes you feel. If you want to feel sexy, you want to feel bright, you want to feel good. That's what people are attracted to - when they see you execute an emotion or an idea clearly and proudly.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Should Art Ideas Self Form Fun Emotion Fashion Expression Should Have Sexy Feel Good Self Expression

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.”

Ifs Knows Should I Can Done Dies Loses Regret Should Have No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”

Ifs Should Mean Women Hero Should Have Philosopher Womens Rights Statesmen Firefighter

Book:The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

“I did a job, [Don King] took money, probably more than he should have. If I was supposed to get $10 million, I was lucky to get $6.5 million. It happens and you can't do much, you decide whether to take it or leave it. King was a promoter, and he was good at it.”

Ifs Should Happens Jobs Millions Kings Lucky Should Have Promoters

Author:Larry Holmes

“I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.”

Ifs Men Should Writing Humans Said Ideas Character Turns Girl Human Beings Boys Written Like You Should Have Credit No Idea

Author:Karla Souza

“Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message, that's the perfect type of a story.”

Ifs Should Writing Stories Social Perfect Type Messages Conscience Should Have

Author:Stan Lee

“But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Has Beens Use Fighting Knowing Ready Ought Should Have Seeking Deeds Fancy Theme Helpless Idle Should Have Been

Author:Plato

“There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we should have known it then. It's about exactly what's happening, how we can disregard public opinion as long as the dictators we support are capable of suppressing their populations. So to hell with public opinion. That's all right there in the 1950's. That's not security. That's not security of the government. That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. You can't let things just happen. If you know right from wrong, and you know proof that certain things are true and people are telling you information to guide you and it's good solid information, than you should have it.”

People Ifs Knows Should Happens Certain Lost Information Battle Should Have Guides Proof

Author:Bill Cosby

“Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.”

“If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. I don't feel that I can sit in judgment on them, or that society can sit in judgment on them. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it.”

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Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.”

Ifs Want Should Faces Issues Effects Labor Should Have Absolutes Unions Workers Borders Guests Depressing Wages Cheap Labor

Author:Mark Helprin

“I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example, if we had Ukraine and Georgia in NATO - and this is something McCain and the other neocons have advocated for - we would be at war now because Russia has invaded both of them.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.”

“If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.”

Ifs Giving Should Stage Capitalism Should Have Definitions Revolutionary Imperialism Monopoly

Book:Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Source: Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

“I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.”

Ifs World Should Writing Has Beens War Wanted Mother Should Have War Of The Worlds World War I Should Have Been Messed Up

Author:Doris Lessing

“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Ideas Language Taken Should Have Philosophical Fewer Disputes English Language

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

“Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.”