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“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.”

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Author:Ellen Malcolm

“Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way.”

People Knows Way Should Ideas Walks Deals Sky Strange Should Have Bridges Planes Astonishing Nobody Knows Walks Of Life Clueless

Author:Peter York

“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Writing Wells Long Two Happens Waiting Acting Crazy Stage Months Impatient Two Months

Author:Erland Josephson

“Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.”

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Author:Ajahn Sumedho

“[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.”

People Knows Should Two Hard Stories Wanted Heard Feet Example Luck Boat Broke Relate Misfortunes Anticipation Only Time Good Luck Cursed Passengers Time Will Tell Only Time Will Tell

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .”

“While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.”

Knows Should Philosophy Science Certain Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Ought Concepts Affair Practicals Certainty Useless Not Knowing Precise Precision Arithmetic Sceptic

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?”

Ifs Knows Want Should Trying Wells Running Half One Thing Raises Rounds Justify Investors

Author:David Plotz

“A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.”

People Knows Should Decision Therapy

Author:Judy Woodruff

“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Knows Men Should Wells Art Feelings Age Lying Religious Common Consciousness Perception Method Fellows Unions Various Well Being Brotherhood Fellow Man Lying Men Brotherhood Of Man

Book:What is Art?:

Source: What is Art?:

“Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.”

Knows Should Made Courage Taken Birth Worship Ill Wit Comparison

Book:The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”

Knows Men Should Father Education Strange Genius Circumstances Paid Bills Prepared Practicals Items

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Littles Loses Wealth Poor Adversity Riches Substance

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

“In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.”

People Knows Needs Should States Helping United United States Ready Congress Disaster Florida Mississippi Louisiana Alabama Time Of Need

Author:Bill Frist

“Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.”

Knows World Should Break Destiny This World Duty Universal Mere Obedience Zero Smallest Fractions

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.”

Knows Should Asks Should Have Fake Interviews Accents Saddam Adopted Hussein Phony Interpreter

Author:Jay Leno

“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

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.”

Thinking Knows Should Kind I Can Today Past Pay Attention Genius Computer Disaster All Kinds Pay Attention Closest Chips Parallels Inventing Silicon

Author:Billy Zane

“We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.”

Knows Should Advertising Ads Manipulative

Author:Christy Turlington

“These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.”

Knows Should Practice Cases Know How Personality Critics Philosopher Organize Cult Moderates Obsessive

Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.”

Knows Men Should Past Life Is Left Know How Every Man Experiments

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.”

Knows Men Should Doe Courses Church Sin Tasks Forgiving Gods Will Great Things Unconditional Magnitude Rigor

Book:God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

“Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?”

Ifs Knows Should Moments Seems Our Lives Example Consequence Deeds Things In Life Unimportant

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.”

Thinking Knows Feels Should Happens Paint Disappear Things Happen Mysterious Crafts Mysterious Things

Author:Philip Guston

“When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.”

Knows Should Success Talking Too Much Written Seeing Industry Succeed Dresses Presses Shoes Meant To Be

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.”

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Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.”

Ifs Knows Should Humans Hands Design Species Human Society Human Species

Author:Frans de Waal

“They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!”

Knows Should Reality Time Winning Loses Wind Blow Arguing I Realized Insane Katie

Author:Byron Katie

“Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.”

“Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.”

Knows World Way Should Loses Feet Who We Are Infinity Being Thankful Losing Yourself

Author:John Frusciante

“Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.”

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.”

Knows Men Should Liberty Conversation Libertarian Every Man Libertarianism Personal Life Correspondence

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967

“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

“Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Knows Should Art Matter Differences Changed No Matter What Maturity Art Of Living Courage To Change Wisdom To Know The Difference

Author:Ann Landers

“If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.”

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Author:Rachel Carson

“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.”

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Author:Jewel

“The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.”

“To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."”

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Author:William Shenstone

“The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.”

Knows Feels Should Strong Behinds Style Seven Concentration Strokes Rating Rowing Announcing

Author:Phillip Thomas

“I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”

Ifs Knows Love Giving Should Wells I Can Enough Evil Learning Sincere Vengeance Evil Man Good Against Evil Lesser Evil

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."”

Ifs Knows Should Persons Motivational Particular Faults Excuse Defense Bother Just Smile

Author:Epictetus

“You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.”

Knows Should Women Effort Support Drama Affection Backgrounds Hovering Love And Affection

Author:Amy Dickinson

“You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.”

Thinking Knows Men World Should White Party Know How Example Humorous Dresses Shoes Suits Farmers Leisure Plastic Pigs Costumes Belts

Author:Dave Barry

“People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting.”

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Author:Linda Evangelista

“I do the extra... When you do the extra you should never doubt yourself... every fight I have a smile on my face because I know I've done it all.”

Knows Should Done Faces Fighting Doubt Extras Mma Smile On My Face Never Doubt Yourself

Author:Jon Jones

“"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.”

Thinking Knows Feels Should Made Desire Particular Strange Offers Musician Desperate Philip Micah

Author:Angelina Jolie

“When I started that's how I wrote because I didn't know any better. I was just like "I want to make music." Then there were all these things that I learned to get myself over certain humps, but I think it just comes down to: do I have something to say or not? If I'm feeling something I should try to get that out, and maybe it's not words, but trying to turn it into something.”

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Author:Mikky Ekko

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