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• Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

  George Orwell

  Discrimination, Colour, Instance

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Judging, Scripture

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.2

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• The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

  Martin Luther

  Men, Devil, Experts

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Party, Way

  1811 Sense and Sensibility, vol.2, ch.6.

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• There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

  Jane Austen

  Battle, Former

  "The History of England". Book by Jane Austen, 1791.

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• Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Writing, Should, Theodore

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• The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Struggle, Effectiveness, Useless

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Hazards, Charity

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 30, 1651.

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• We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

  Tony Benn

  War, July, Play

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. October 23, 2000.

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• And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.

  Willem de Kooning

  Artist, Men, Thinking

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Brain, Sound

  David Hume (1824). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition”, p.24

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• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fall, Wake Up, Kind

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to know oneself, - and I do know what I am not, and your regard for me has at least awakened me to believe in the possibility that I may yet make some impression with my "light" - my "dews" - my "breezes" - my bloom and freshness, - no one of which qualities has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

  John Constable

  Children, Believe, Light

  Letter to C.R. Leslie (March 1833), from "The Letters of John Constable, R.A. to C. R. Leslie, R.A. 1826-1837", p. 104, 1931.

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• It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

  Ernest Bevin

  Asking, Movement, Body

  Labour Party Annual Conference Report, (p. 178), 1935.

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• One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

  Anthony Trollope

  Agreement, Contracts, Wells

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.78, 谷月社

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• If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would it be from the actual Bible! There would be as many Bibles as there are souls, and they would differ as widely. But in one thing, amid all their differences, they would probably agree: they would lack the variety, both in form and substance, of the Holy Book which the Church of God places in the hands of her children.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Children, Book, Hands

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• If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Tanith Lee : Love & Death & Publishers", www.locusmag.com. April 1998.

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• Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Simple, Logic, Courses

  William Stanley Jevons (1870). “Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms”, p.6

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• whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

  Henri Barbusse

  Ignorance, Study, Devotion

  Henri Barbusse (2009). “The Inferno”, p.236, The Floating Press

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• UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Names, Numbers, Doe

  "Modern Operating Systems". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992.

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• Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

  Thomas Cooper

  Truth, Religion, Doctrine

  Thomas Cooper (1829). “Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...”, p.375

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• To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

  Paul Delaroche

  Passion, People, Looks

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• Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Character, Men, Vision

  William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.3

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• This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.

  Jean Liedloff

  Spring, Autumn, Winter

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• You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Boys, Order, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.219, Random House

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