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• A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

  George Washington

  Wisdom, Military, Independent

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.8

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• Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hate, Thinking, Long

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• Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Want, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

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• I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

  John Wooden

  Want, I Am Thankful, Used

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• I am certainly an ought and not a must.

  E. M. Forster

  Literature

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• We ought to consider the end in everything.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Ends

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, III. 5, March 31, 1668.

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• We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

  J.R. Miller

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Joy

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• You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dream, Businessman, Sun Also Rises

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• Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Work, Answers To Prayer

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• Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

  Josephus Daniels

  Editors, Crime, Hung

  Josephus Daniels (1941). “Editor in Politics”

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• I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Stupid, Computer

  "Build your foundation with basic". Q&A with Bill Gates, buffalonews.com. January 30, 1996.

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

  William James

  Happiness, Attitude, Mean

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Silly, Rumor

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• Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

  Frank Delaney

  Enemy, Contentment, Should

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• Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Mean, Being Free

  William Barclay (1961). “The Letters of James and Peter”, p.240, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

  Josephus

  God, Religion, Worship

  Flavius Josephus (1999). “The New Complete Works of Josephus”, p.24, Kregel Academic

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• Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

  Diogenes

  Marriage, Men, Young

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• Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Quality, Vices, May

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• We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

  Philip Yancey

  Believe, Littles, Changed

  Philip Yancey (2001). “The Bible Jesus Read”, p.128, Zondervan

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• He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

  Seneca the Younger

  May, Doe, Praise

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Octavia, 454, 1922.

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• The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

  Francois Arago

  Science, Degrees, Limits

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.235

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• To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

  James Dickey

  Guilt, Sometimes, Feels

  James Dickey (1972). “Self-interviews”

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• Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Reality, Leader

  "Cnn Saturday Morning News" with T.J. Holmes, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

  Socrates

  Eye, Soul, Body

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• We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Mistake, Decision, Making Mistakes

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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