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Make our democracy work the way it's supposed to work.
They are supposed to be locked up.
They aren't supposed to be out at large."
It took me several such incidents to figure out what I was supposed to do.
And before I worked with the kids, anything that I did with them, or anything that I did with myself, was supposed to be perfect, ideal, optimal, but after working with them for some time, I discovered the great virtues of empathy and flexibility and being able to start with some vision, and if the vision doesn't work, well nothing happened.
Meetings are places to go to talk about things you're supposed to be doing later.
Nothing wrong with that, unless you ask it to do what 12-Gauge wire's supposed to do, and that's what happens.
That's supposed to exhibit the stream of consciousness.
And I supposed that that was just a flat truth, always true.
We're supposed to always be on the prowl.
And we have a lot of skill and experience, but it's a trick, so how are you supposed to prepare to get through that glass ceiling?
To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done, or it's about giving until it hurts.
I spent some years watching how good intentions for community empowerment, that were supposed to be there to support the community and empower it, actually left people in the same, if not worse, position that they were in before.
A lot of how we decide, how we're supposed to react to things and what we're supposed to expect about the future depends on how we bucket things and how we categorize them.
People aren't supposed to be there.
I had a heart catheterization, where they measure this internal arterial pulmonary pressure, which is supposed to be between 15 and 20.
Those are all behaviors where people know what they're supposed to do.
They know what they're supposed to be doing, but they're not doing it.
We're told what shape we're supposed to be in.
We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
Social media was supposed to bring us together in ways we could never imagine.
We were supposed to be caught up in a communication tsunami, the likes of which the world has never seen.
Social media was supposed to place us in a veritable town square, where we could engage one another with challenging ideas and debates.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions.
They're not supposed to, but they figure out a way.
I think December 54th was probably supposed to be 24th.
I became more comfortable simply being who I am, rather than who I'm supposed to be or expected to be.
And then my friends who make small independent films say, "Well, how are we supposed to compete with these big, giant Hollywood movies?"
Because big sisters are always supposed to support their little sisters.
What happened was that Aveling's mistress was Marx's daughter, and when both Darwin and Marx were dead, Marx's papers became muddled up with Aveling's papers, and a letter from Darwin saying, "My dear sir, thank you very much but I don't want you to dedicate your book to me," was mistakenly supposed to be addressed to Marx, and that gave rise to this whole myth, which you've probably heard.
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