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• But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

  Aloysius Martinich

  Baby, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Giving

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• Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Self, Satisfaction

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• [T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

  Sarah Fielding

  Character, Imagination, Chiefs

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.175

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• To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Marriage, Sex, School

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.70, Hackett Publishing

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• Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Men, Practice

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

  Bhartrhari

  Adversity, Men, Evil

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• I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Gratitude, War, Men

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (March 12, 1932), as quoted in "Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections" edited by Alice Kimball Smith (p. 155), 1995.

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• The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

  Umberto Eco

  Wish, Principles, Fundamentals

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• The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

  Denis Diderot

  God, Religious, Men

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• Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.

  Terry Brooks

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

  Andy Stanley

  Lying, Believe, Want

  Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to do something even more bold. I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.

  Colin Powell

  Hands, People, Energy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

  Julian Bond

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Heidi Williamson, www.americanprogress.org. February 22, 2013.

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• When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.

  Mike Huckabee

  Gun, Load

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• My purpose is to make sure that we protect every American, wherever that American is, and if an American is calling out for help, whether it's in Benghazi or at the border, then we ought to be able to answer it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Borders, Purpose, Calling

  Mike Huckabee at the Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.

  George Orwell

  Country, Struggle, Party

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Smart, Thinking, Museums

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it all and you just keep going until the day comes when you can't do it anymore. And that's what I want to do.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Tired, Thinking, Giving

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• I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

  Johnny Carson

  Thinking, Anarchy, Students

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  Knowledge, Perfect, People

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• If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Thinking, Artist

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.12, Nuvision Pubns

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• We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.cbn.com

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