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“He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Two Bigs Race Crazy Return Tomorrow Republican Ten Taxes Speech Six Losing Capitalism Eight Defense Release Back And Forth Margins Tactical Tax Returns

Author:William Kristol

“Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.”

Ifs Should Teach Ten Our Family Urges Household Commandments Ten Commandments

Book:Martin Luther, selections from his writings

Source: Martin Luther, selections from his writings

“When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.”

Men Should Law Jesus Christ Grace He Man Ten Gains Jesus Christ Economics Importance Relevant Commandments Dominion Redeemed Ten Commandments

Author:Gary North

“There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.”

Should Country Numbers Ten Gun Rifles

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on race, riots, Reds, crime

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on race, riots, Reds, crime

“Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.”

Should Years Humans Form Order Thousand Ten Human Life Forty Thousand Years Deviate

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.”

Should Strong Moral Cases Ten Blow Obligation Very Strong Narcotics Moral Obligation Stimulants

Book:Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources

Source: Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources

“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.”

Should Wells Three Impossible Effects Ten Gains Difficulty Paint Appearance Speed Inches Canvas Yards Fleeting

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.”

Thinking Should May Long Left Term Pieces Stage Poet Reader Fame Ten Critics Following Stealing Temples Pounds Orthodox Justification Long Ago Shrinks Posterity Condemnation Charlatans

Author:Laura Riding

“Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.”

Should Years Mind Ideas Ten Proven

Author:Andre Maurois

“After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.”

Way Feels Should Writing Years Stills Ends Courses Pay Too Much Ten Percent Agents More Money Clients

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to 'How's your cold' with 'It sucks.' So there should be an It Sucks cold formula.”

Should Facts Asks Cold Ten Degrees Thirds Nine Weather Formulas Severe

Author:Celia Rivenbark

“If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Sports Differences Millions Teacher Car Buddhism Thousand Ten Girlfriend Making A Difference Rama Flashy Sports Cars

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.”

“A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.”

Thinking Men Should May Doe Whole Passion Wife Genius Hero Ten British Dislike Commandments Statesmen Ten Commandments Tailors Great Hero

Author:Ouida

“No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?”

Ifs Needs Should Next Space Minutes Ten Empty Leaving Breathe Spares Jam

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.”

Way Should Made Sometimes Enough Wanted Dies Passion Speak Wish Enjoy Behinds Saws Ten Beats Dancing Dance Notion Partners Nine Made It Necks Alas Lighters Delirious

Author:Ethel Smyth

“I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.”

Thinking Should Said Two Different Reason Law Ten Weakness Should Have Mathematics Proof Repetition Reciprocity Different Directions Theorems Strength And Weakness Quadratics

Author:Michael Atiyah

“Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.”

Thinking World Should Writing Believe Book Ideas Individual Religious Atheism Thousand Ten Dear Positive Atheism Publishing Reformation Sects Religious Sects

Book:Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

Source: Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?”

Ifs Men Should Years Littles Ends Matter Lasts Universe Knowledge Our Lives Higher Ten Should Have Eternity Infinity What Matters Duration More Knowledge

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.”

Should Religion Nations Ten Commandments Ten Commandments

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.”

Love Should Sun Wind Ten Lows Draws Shadow Wings Driving Rings Hills Faster Beam Dove Cupid Nimble

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock”

Should Ten Should Have Investment Conviction Cents Net Worth

Author:Warren Buffett

“If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.”

Ifs Should Years Different Done Principles Saws Subjects Ten Years Ago

Author:Michael Haneke

“When I'm smiling and having fun, that's when you should have a problem. If I'm out there frowning and looking mean, that's when you know you've beat me - because I'm not having fun. I've been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten.”

Ifs Knows Should Mean Problem Three Fun Dad Ten Basketball Beats Should Have My Dad Having Fun Frowning Playing Basketball

Author:Dwight Howard

“There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.”

Thinking Should Years Made Lasts Challenges Decision Results Policy Inspire Thousand Ten Built Proportion Executives Provoking Right Decision Morris

Author:William Morris

“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.”

Giving Should Years May Made Book Would Be Reading Loses Ten Made It Shelves Extensions

Author:Pam Brown

“I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.”

Ifs Knows Should Use Half Talking Ten Dollars Faster Convince Shut Up

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.”

Should Trying Night Energy Chance Millions Ten Rounds Convince Halls Atoms Reservoirs Splitting Ammunition Gnats Splitting The Atom

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days. We must be very open and sincere with the Greek people. They should know what they could really expect. I think all of these old political logic is dead. We have to be honest, open and determined to get the Greeks out of this crisis.”

People Thinking Knows Should Lasts Political Honest Ten Tough Logic Crisis Determined Campaigns Being Honest Greek Necks Sincere

Author:Dora Bakoyannis

“Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.”

Needs Should Children Together Faces Parent Hours Talking Minutes Subjects Ten Contact Each Day Spouse Face To Face

Author:Brian Tracy

“The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.”

Should Years Long Reason Seems Term Lessons Ten Years Ago Should Have Management Investment Primaries Long Term Belly

Author:Richard Thaler

“It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.”

“The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.”

Should Ten Paper Six Commandments Examination Ten Commandments

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.”

Thinking Should Years Littles Sometimes Done Moments Wish Grows Bits Five One Day Ten Little Bit Let Me Evolve Live In The Moment

Author:Gloria Estefan

“A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.”

Should Feet Ten Should Have England Keepers

Author:Ron Atkinson

“Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?”

“You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Said Kids Asks Ten England Nine Cheating Sprint Cheating Yourself

Author:Alan Shearer

“Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?”

Giving Should Years Earth Ten

Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.”

Should Years Wells Stills Enough Song Ten Universal

Author:Greg Graffin

“Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?”

Should Long Government Care Turns Three Ten Prosperity Income Socialism Inequality Discussion Spite Commandments Petty Ten Commandments Covetousness Income Inequality Thievery

Author:Ben Shapiro

“If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.”

Ifs Should Years Has Beens Ten Years Ago Should Have Should Have Been

Author:Francois Guizot

“There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have upwards of 2000. There are educational programs that didn't exist before, there are housing programs, health programs, senior citizen programs, cultural programs and the list goes on. It's all because some people stood up and said sovereignty is our right by treaty and the constitution says treaty law is the supreme law of the land.”

“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”

People Should Years Long Today Wanted Poor Cities Poverty Ten Mountain Aspect Years Ago India Assuming Forests Tribes Better Off

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never ever been acknowledged in the history books. John Winthrop wasn't off the boat ten seconds before he passes a law that homosexuals should be hanged. And then he hung 'em, including an attempt to hang his own son when he found out he was gay.”

People Thinking Should Book Law Found Son Gay Ten Including Boat Ems Seconds Hung Homosexual History Books

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way.”

Way Should Years Littles Done School Interest Teaching Ten Approach Medical Bother Operations Should I Surgeons Medical School New Approach

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon; we should be on Mars in ten years." That's if it was driven by exploration, but it's never been driven by exploration.”

Ifs Should Years Reason Space Military Moon Ten Driven Exploration Mars

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.”

Should Years Reader Ten Ambition Hundred Trade Contemporary

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.”

Should Challenges Ten Court Congress Remove Commandments Legislation Pledge Allegiance Outrageous Aggravation Ten Commandments Jurisdiction Pledge Of Allegiance

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.”

Source: Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.”

Knows Love Should Years Said Today Flower Thousand Ten Hundred Thousand Years

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin