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• Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, School, Inspire

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• It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Men, Atheism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

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• They ought to create a new league for that guy.

  Jack Harshman

  Baseball, League, Guy

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• The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

  John Milton

  Men, Atheism, Liberty

  John Milton (2012). “John Milton Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education”, p.680, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

  Ernest Renan

  Jesus, Atheism, Done

  Ernest Renan (1864). “The Life of Jesus”, p.27

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• You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wish, Atheism, Needs

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• Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Air, Hands

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.115, Univ of California Press

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• You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Hands, Design

  "Frans de Waal on Political Apes, Science Communication, and Building a Cooperative Society". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, blogs.scientificamerican.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Home, Who I Am

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body.  He has no right to loaf about idly; but after his day's work is done, he ought to harden his young body, so that life may not find him soft when he enters it.  No one should be allowed to sin at the expense of posterity, that is, of the race.

  Adolf Hitler

  Boys, Race, Done

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• Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Long, Trying

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• Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Order, Two

  Mark Twain (2008). “Life on the Mississippi (Volume 1 of 3 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.167, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for

  Bertrand Russell

  Bed, Feels, Ifs

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.232, Routledge

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• Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

  Plutarch

  Encouragement, Children, Mean

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• People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

  Dorothy Parker

  Two, People, Young

  Quoted in The Sayings of Dorothy Parker, ed. S. T. Brownlow (1992)

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• Sacred interpreter of human thought,
  How few respect or use thee as they ought!
  But all shall give account of every wrong,
  Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue;
  Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,
  Or sell their glory at a market-price!

  William Cowper

  Giving, Vices, Use

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.40

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• The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Numbers, Design

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.3805, Delphi Classics

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• An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

  Henry Fielding

  Book, Giving, Gentleman

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.51

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• When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

  Epictetus

  Friends, Speak, Treats

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

  Epictetus

  Physicians, Discrimination

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Home, Feelings, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

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• Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

  John Selden

  Wit, Spoil, Stills

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.152

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• I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fighting, Differences, Knowing

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• Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.

  Judith Martin

  Hair, Attention, Red

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