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• It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, New York, Mistake

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• Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Country, Wall

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• There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Teamwork, Honesty, Business

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• Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Love You, Boys, And Love

  Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1952). “Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence”

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• The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.

  Warren Buffett

  Views, People, Relax

  "CNBC Exclusive: Liz Claman Interviews Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO, Live at the Company's Annual Shareholder's Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on "Squawk on the Street"". "Squawk On The Street" with Liz Claman, www.cnbc.com. May 7, 2007.

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• You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Would Be, Needs

  "Warren Buffett’s big life lesson to students: Don’t borrow money like Donald Trump" by Tae Kim, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2018.

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• We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all mean the same thing; all good minds in every religion aim at pleasing the Supreme Being; the means we take differ according to where we are born, and the prejudices we imbibe from education; a consideration which ought to inspire us with kindness and indulgence to each other.

  Frances Brooke

  Kindness, Women, Mean

  Frances Brooke (2010). “The History of Emily Montague”, p.112, New Canadian Library

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• There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Silly, Gossip, Wickedness

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  God, Father, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 270), 1895.

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• To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Return, Lovers

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• One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Writing, Matter, Firsts

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• ... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Teacher, Ambition, Brain

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Answers, Minutes

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.96, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

  Pope Gregory I

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Men

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• Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.

  Philip Sidney

  Courage, Men, Skills

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.68

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• Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

  Evan Esar

  Mouths, Speech, Congress

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.

  Benjamin Thompson

  Distance, Discovery, Use

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• Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

  Richard Whately

  Spiritual, Celibacy, Advantage

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.87

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• Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

  Russell Conwell

  Men, Good Man, Wealth

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• Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Time, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Home, Men

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• the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Government, Priorities

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• Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Calumny, Secure

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.154

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• One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Loneliness, Solitude, Wish

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