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• I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

  William Benton Clulow

  Excellence, Intellectual, Battle

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.295

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• The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

  Joan Robinson

  Essentials, Firsts, Economics

  Joan Robinson (2017). “Economic Philosophy”, p.95, Routledge

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• Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.

  Carson Cistulli

  Effort, Pursue, Activity

  "A Century of Enthusiasm". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2007.

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• When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Party, Class, Names

  "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.

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• The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.

  Hannah Woolley

  Wise, Sex, Husband

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• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Running, Nice, Thinking

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• Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

  Harrison Ford

  Ideas, Leather Jackets, Indiana

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Running, House, Opera

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

  Al Sharpton

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.

  Columella

  Priorities, Important, Done

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• Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.

  Joan Aiken

  Teaching, Healing, Mean

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• [On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Land, Leaving, Soul

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• Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Justice, Looks, Care

  "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations". Book by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 59-68, Stockdale's Case (1789), 1904.

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• The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Risk, Drivers, Knows

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• Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Children, Thinking, Done

  Josephine Lawrence (1944). “A tower of steel”

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• Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Opposites, Delightful

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• Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

  Vance Havner

  Real, World, Way

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

  Wallace Shawn

  Country, Love You, Emotion

  Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.28, Haymarket Books

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• If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Reason, Instinct

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.428

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• We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Society, Genius

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.156

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• He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.

  George Herbert

  Values

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.324

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• Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

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• We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

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• We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.

  Jerry Bridges

  Thinking

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.102, NavPress

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• Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Nuisance, Entitlement, Duty

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