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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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• Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  People, Faces, Speak

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.121, Northwestern University Press

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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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• Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Character, Men, Acting

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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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• There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Waiting, Acting, Obedience

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1856). “A pastor's sketches: or, Conversations with anxious inquirers respecting the way of salvation. With an intr. and ed. notes, by J.A. James”, p.23

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• Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

  Ellen Willis

  Real, Moving, Loss

  "How Now, Iron Johns?". "The Nation", December 13, 1999.

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• Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

  Leo Strauss

  Philosophy, Historical, Done

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.31, University of Chicago Press

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• I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Home, Sunshine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• [On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

  Nina Totenberg

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Justice

  "Inside Washington", PBS, July 8, 1995.

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• Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

  Howard Dean

  Voice, Heard, Halls

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• Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Spiritual, Respect, Confused

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• We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Country, Trying, Three

  "All Or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943". Book by Jonathan Steinberg, p. 67, 2002.

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• "Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine times out of ten I get up and say, "Go it," and then go off about my business; and if ever I am so foolish as to quarrel with a woman, I ought to be whipped; for you may always calculate that they will have the last word.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Brother, Nine, Lasts

  "Journal of Discourses", Volume 5, September 27, 1857.

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• When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

  Edwin Lefevre

  Men, Want, He Man

  "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator". Book by Edwin Lefèvre. Chapter XVII, p. 211, 1923.

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• Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.

  Ilana Mercer

  Party, Government, Law

  "Party of Traitors". www.wnd.com. May 26, 2006.

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• [Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

  Peter Tait

  Book, Men, Pay

  "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.

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• If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Men, Sight

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 129), 1895.

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• An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

  William Henry Maule

  Liberty, Favour, Construction

  Johnson v. Harris, 3 W.R. 104, 1854.

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• It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Common Humanity, Names

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

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• A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Awe, Heavenly, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.67

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• When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, World, Response

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• The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Levels, Uniforms

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press

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• I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

  Walt Disney

  Feelings, Experiments, Happens

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• Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

  John D. Voelker

  Fun, Sea, Fishing

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