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• To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.

  Edward Augustus Freeman

  Writing, Men, Language

  Edward Augustus Freeman (1886). “The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor”

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• Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Mother, Children, Women

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

  Paul Giamatti

  Thinking, Giving, Good Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

  Michael Stipe

  Our Generation, Environmental, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.

  John McCain

  Jobs, Believe, Agency

  "Obama allies urge greater scrutiny of drones policy". www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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• Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders. They're supposed to be grateful. They can never for a moment not be afforded this wonderful protection. The father who will never go away. The father who will never quit caring for them.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Father, Grateful

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.

  Chrissy Costanza

  Past, Lines, Boat

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.

  Edward Snowden

  Warfare, Earth, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Real, Character, Bunch

  "Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis Interview, Due Date". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November, 2010.

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• Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team.

  Edward Snowden

  Team, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  KRS-One

  Country, Jesus, Rap

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

  Ezra Furman

  Sake, Kind, Structure

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

  Patrick Califia

  Hate, People, Prejudice

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• It's supposed to be a good thing that he's got this dialogue started. To me, I think, I just took away something bad from it, because, apparently he had to do this not to convince them of anything. To educate them.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Good Things, Dialogue

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• I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Ambition, Way

  "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan". Biography, Documentary, 2005.

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• A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

  Anthony Burgess

  Character, Past, Chess Pieces

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

  Kristen Schaal

  Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

  Katherine Paterson

  Tough

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #16”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Class, Gentleman

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• You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if youre going to be happy and authentic. Food isnt supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.

  Jorge Cruise

  Kids, Entertainment, Way

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• Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Given, Estates

  "Townson v. Tickell". Barnewall and Alderson's King's Bench Reports, 1820.

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• It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Law, Body

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• We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fashion, Law, Land

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• I don't know why people say I'm not supposed to be doing what I'm doing. I'm just trying to do my job. I'm blessed, and I'm glad that I'm blessed.

  Albert Pujols

  Jobs, Blessed, People

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• It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Investing, Easy

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