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• He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Common Sense, Mouths

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• Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

  Rachel Vincent

  Easy, Kaylee, Has Beens

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.468, Harlequin

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• [A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

  Frederick Douglass

  Spiritual, Men, Air

  Frederick Douglass (2011). “In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion”, p.237, Cornell University Press

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• Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Care, Fields

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Lust," she said. "Lust is a deadly sin." "And spanking." "I think that falls under lust." "I think it should have its own category." said Jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Thinking, Lust

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who might’ve been able to reach out and save her from herself. To pull her back from wherever she was heading. I did what she asked and I left. When I should have stayed.

  Jay Asher

  Hurt, Pain, Add

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.220, Penguin

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• I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Cutting, Needs

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

  Gore Vidal

  Missing, Lessons, Should

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• ...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought of that and tagged my neck or something.

  Kiersten White

  Lying, Ankles, Rooms

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• The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well she never kissed me like that…I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then…I guess it’s Katniss’ problem. Who to choose…Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Games, Katniss

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• No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend’s wife; now she devils me constantly. I should—

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Wife, Devil

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Boredom, Tree

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

  Jenny Lawson

  Firsts, Bars, Drink

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.182, Pan Macmillan

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• I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, People, Insane

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• I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Stars, Home, Night

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.24, SCB Distributors

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• I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Normal, Scared, Feels

  Elizabeth Scott (2013). “Miracle”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

  Idries Shah

  Needs, Wonder, Persons

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.57, Octagon Press Ltd

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• The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Liars, Differences

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• Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Falling In Love, Guy

  Twitter post from Sep 3, 2012

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• …You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Beautiful, True Friend, Philosophy

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• I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

  Juliet Marillier

  Storm, Firsts, Raindrops

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• It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Warrior, Men, Division

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.9, Bottom of the Hill

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• Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

  Terry Brooks

  May, Might, Possibility

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• When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Should, Breathless

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• It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

  Joko Beck

  Guilt, Different, Looks

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