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“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.”

Should Government Form Certain Passion Principles Practice Essentials Bible Guides Occasions Temper

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.”

Ifs Men Want Should Littles Long Stills Song Wish Gold Score Muster Mint

Book:POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Source: POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

“Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.”

Men Should Heart Doe Reason Wish Justice Roots Regard Mood Hypocrisy Deceit Falsehood Inconsistent Insincerity

Author:Blaise Pascal

“His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.”

Should Produce Standards Accounts Invention Fidelity Factual

Book:Hemingway on War

Source: Hemingway on War

“My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.”

Should Friendship Drink My Friends Dozen Tombs Claret

Author:John Keats

“The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.”

Should Mind Heard Silent Defence Perversion

Book:A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish

Source: A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish

“Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.”

Should Leader Moral Morality Self Control Imposing

Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

“Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God”

People Should Might Nations Voice Silence Worship Raised Temples Voice Of God

Book:Diary of a Pilgrimage

Source: Diary of a Pilgrimage

“Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?”

Should Ass Kicks Should I Resent

Author:Socrates

“Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.”

Should Psychology Disease Cures

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.”

World Way Should Objects Lessons Attributes Ecology Visceral Attributes Of God

Author:Joel Salatin

“Someone should make a Kickstarter to get Taylor Swift a booty.”

Should Booty Kickstarter

Author:Diplo

“In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.”

Needs Should Important Choices Decision Decision Making Personal Life Making Decisions Making Choices Decisions Made Important Decisions Pros And Cons Personal Decisions

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.”

Should Believe Views Shy

Author:Christine Lagarde

“Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”

People Should Two Party Policy Election Profound Identical Rascals Foreign Relations Two Party System

Author:Carroll Quigley

“One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.”

Men Should Made Two Home Half Century One Day Woods Bent Trails Boston Footsteps Crooked Precedent Calves Primeval

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.”

Men Should House Strong Sides Race Wise Weak Let Me Foolish Seats Should I Hospitality Bans Cynic

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.”

Thinking Want Should Machines

Author:Andy Warhol

“Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.”

Should Spirit Too Much Teacher Taught Rigidity Insubordination

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.”

People Ifs Should Trying Helping Increase Critics Explanation Obscurity

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

Should Force Objects Painting Perspective Disappear Beholder

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.”

Should Personality Oneself I Realized Revelations Evident Mannerisms

Author:Georges Braque

“It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.”

Should Made Paint Sufficient Visible Tangible

Author:Georges Braque

“I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.”

Should Personality Decided Painter Signatures

Author:Georges Braque

“I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.”

Should Moments Differences I Realized Signatures

Author:Georges Braque

“There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.”

Should Liberty One Thing Tied Submit Censure Tied Up Contending

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Where our joy is, there should our work be.”

Should Joy Work

Author:Tertullian

“Properly, we should read for power.”

Author:Ezra Pound

“Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.”

Needs Should Given Information Access Cards Journalist Jail Access To Information

Author:Chris Powell

“I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.”

Should Care Generosity Who Cares Lectures

Author:Howard Pyle

“My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.”

Should Kind Art Teaching Objectives Pupils

Author:Howard Pyle

“The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.”

Men World Should Faces Purpose Order Universe Born Answers Achieve This World Every Man Practicals Weekend Schemes Propositions Metaphysical Mystic

Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.”

Should Passion Violent Disgusting Nevertheless

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.”

Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Ends Stories Used Lying My Own Written Subjects Wall Gun Concerned Crosses Chapters Hanging On

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.”

Should Artist Freedom Progress Conservative Believer Monk

Book:The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull

Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull

“I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.”

Men Want Should Humor Funny Guy Turns Race Feet Car Window Radio Circles Drivers Keep Going Tides Slow Down Bugs Turn-on Passengers Race Car

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.”

People Men Want Should Heart Shows Eye Eccentric Disagreeable Nonentity

Book:Van Gogh by Vincent

Source: Van Gogh by Vincent

“We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.”

Knows Way Should Feelings Spirit Creation Pure Glory Knowing God

Book:Self-realization

Source: Self-realization

“I see TV ads about detergents that can get blood stains out of your cloths. I say if you have blood stains on your cloths you should be thinking about something other than laundry.”

Ifs Thinking Should Blood Tvs Clothes Ads Stains Laundry

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!”

Should Reason Masters

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.”

World Should Two Possibility Prosperity Connected Enterprise Unusual Free Enterprise

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.”

People Should Years Firsts Process Goal Realizing Institutions Savior Succession

Author:Thomas Sowell

“What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.”

Should Children Dies Hunger Controversy Outrageous Disgraceful

Author:John Powell

“I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.”

Should Enough Contentment

Author:Claude Monet

“It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.”

Should I Can Happens Next Situation Determination Rejection Salons

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.”

Should Stills Pleasure Painting Appreciate Discarded Time Goes By

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.”

Should Judgment Liberality

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.”

Should Ends Law Social Relation Regard Obedience Laws Of Nature Cradle Tombs Social Relations

Author:Hosea Ballou

“If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.”

Ifs Men Should Death Seeing Betrayal Immortal Death And Dying Betray Trusted Dying Death

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.”

Should Soul Used Passion Language Creative Taught Appreciation Mama

Book:Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine

Source: Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine