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When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

Martin Luther

Prayer, Heart, Names

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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

Nathan Deal

Fall, Glitches, Atm

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A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Lefty Gomez

Running, Yankees, Funny Baseball

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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

Aneurin Bevan

Monkeys, Should, Organs

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I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

Dustin Pedroia

Losing, Should

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When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

Anna Kournikova

Player, Tennis, Theatre

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When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

Gore Vidal

Secret, Investing, Should

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I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

Og Mandino

Heart, Yesterday, Mourning

Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.66, Bantam

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And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

Peter Damian

Christian, Heart, Doors

Peter Damian (2010). “Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices”, p.64, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.

Athenagoras of Athens

Christian, Character, Historical

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Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Emil Zatopek

Running, Practice, Romance

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Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

Samuel Rutherford

Soul, Lord, Crops

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Why should I fear death?
If I am, then death is not.
If Death is, then I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
Religious tyranny did domineer.
At length the mighty one of Greece
Began to assent the liberty of man.

Epicurus

Religious, Men, Long

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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

Diogenes

Care, Awareness, Should

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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Beautiful, Stars, Distance

"On the revolutions".

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People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

George Burns

Senior, Two, People

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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"

Langston Hughes

Beautiful, Art, White

Nation, 23 June 1926

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"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

Steve Pavlina

People, Thought Provoking, Choices

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Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

Wanda Sykes

Children, Cancer, Party

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Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Patrick Sky

Honesty, Reality, Telling The Truth

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To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

Chica Umino

Moon, Night, Hands

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Nothing makes sense, why should I?

Suad Amiry

Should, Make Sense, Nothing Makes Sense

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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

Confucius

Religion, World, Littles

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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

Larry Ellison

Inspirational, Jobs, Use

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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

Martin Gardner

Lying, Cat, Answers

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