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• Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Want, Painting

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• Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Virtue, Honour, Reap

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• Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

  Stendhal

  Feet, Miserable, Life Is

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• It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Opportunity, Excuse, Easy

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2009). “Be Faithful (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon): It's Always Too Soon to Quit!”, p.180, David C Cook

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• [There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knives, Appreciate, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.221, Psychology Press

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• We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

  Bertrand Russell

  Looks, World, Faces

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.193, Psychology Press

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• The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

  Walter Bagehot

  Simple, Short Notice, Bankers

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Coffee, Believe

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• What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

  C. Z. Guest

  Horse, Clothes, People

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• One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

  Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

  Hands, Needs, World

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• In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

  Dean Koontz

  Men, Reputation, Crunch

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.24, Penguin

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• I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

  George Orwell

  Years, Opposites, Civilization

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lying, Church, Kind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.287, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going to be a great candidate [for presidency], for sure. But I think - he's a United States senator. He ought to show up.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Thinking, Needs

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Obedience

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

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• War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Risk, Nations

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Hurt, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.295

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• The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Healthy, Wish

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.116, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.

  George Washington

  Action, Should, Risque

  George Washington (1997). “Writings”

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• Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, World, Mature

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.

  Lenny Bruce

  Sex, Children, Hollywood

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. And most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Practice, Forever

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• Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Smart, Men, Rome

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