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• Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

  Jay Sekulow

  Hero, Should Have, Enemy

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• I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

  Rachel Boston

  New York, Should Have, Cities

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• Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.

  Orlando Figes

  Should Have, Stupidity, Political

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• If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not

  Veronica Roth

  Should Have, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Should Have, Age

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”, p.246

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• If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

  James Whistler

  Science, Should Have, Gas

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• In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

  Rene Descartes

  Truth, Should Have, Difficult Questions

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• When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Should Have, Tragedy

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Fighting, Should Have, Numbers

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• From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Good Friend

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.76, FastPencil Inc

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• I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

  Alice James

  Education, Stupid, Humorous

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• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Freedom, Blessing

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• Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

  Lewis Carroll

  Destiny, Should Have, Be Who You Are

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• The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Men, Should Have

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• Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Cheating, Believe

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• Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

  Alfred Nobel

  Life, Strong, Science

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• It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• The sexy magazine in Britain in that time was called Club International. Club International: It was about as international as the International House of Pancakes. It should have been called Naked Cockney Girls with Scurvy.

  Craig Ferguson

  Girl, Sexy, Should Have

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

  Rory McIlroy

  Couple, Swings, Should Have

  "Surprises: A pair of long shots do well, Harrington with belly putter and McIlroy tied on top". www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2013.

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• Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.

  Chris Matthews

  Brother, War, Party

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.

  Rand Paul

  Should Have, President, Answers

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• There`s a certain attitude toward being presidential that is now going away and I think the other thing we`re seeing is really a moment where I think Republicans are waking up to the fact that they should have been doing this a lot earlier. They should have been trying to get under Donald Trump`s skin a lot earlier.

  Donald Trump

  Attitude, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Should Have, Stories

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Opportunity, Should Have, Together

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I don't think the Spice Girls are celebrated as much as they should be. We championed British pop worldwide. We toured everywhere to sell-out crowds and I think there should have been a reflection of that at February's Brit's anniversary.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, Thinking, Reflection

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