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I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Elizabeth I

Names, Deception, Different

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Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.

Elizabeth I

People, Care, Praying

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The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.

Bruno Bettelheim

Children, Growing Up, Stress

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Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

Bruno Bettelheim

Children, Views, Giving

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People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

David Frum

War, Moving, Views

"Congress recognizes a cultural shift". www.politico.com.

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... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.

Anna Julia Cooper

Life, Teaching, Growth

Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.194, Rowman & Littlefield

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Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.

Marlin Fitzwater

Opportunity, Lawyer, Blast

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Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Nice, Simple, Men

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

Pope Innocent III

Christ, Subjection

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... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Leadership, Respect, Self

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When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

Bernardino Ramazzini

Lying, Fate, Men

Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”

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That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Richard Dedekind

Proof

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People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

William J. Clinton

Taken, People, Needs

Source: www.foxnews.com

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Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.

Stella Chess

School, People, Growth

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It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

C. S. Lewis

Children, Reading, Silly

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

R. Kent Hughes

Christian, Attitude, Integrity

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The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Character, Universe

Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.183, Indiana University Press

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There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Voice, People, Should

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Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Isaac Barrow

Ideas, Use, Quacks

Isaac Barrow (1735). “Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines”, p.4

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We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

Jay Leno

Jobs, Years, People

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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

Jonathan Kozol

Children, Opportunity, Skills

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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tasks, Attention, Recuperation

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We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Real, Men, Vices

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Done, Danger, Ifs

Gilbert K. Chesterton (1927). “The Secret of Father Brown”

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The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Reality, Facts, Reason Why

"De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter V, Section 4), circa 15 BC.

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