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• If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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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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• On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Boxing, Mad

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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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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• My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.

  Bruce Molsky

  Brother, Dad, Parent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Believe, Pay

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I'm not for drunk driving - however, the states ought to decide. Different states have different penalties for drunk driving because they're states and they get to do that. If people of one state want to be lighter on drunk drivers, they're wrong. That's their business.

  Tucker Carlson

  People, Drunk, Different

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2005.

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• I wish that there was a unified Democratic position on the war in Iraq. I was that there was a unified American position and everybody agreed with me that we ought to be out of there yesterday. But they don't, and that's the fact. I mean, he's stating a fact about what's going on.

  Howard Dean

  War, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.

  Anita Nair

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Growth, Causes, Facts

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Men, Political

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.128, Xist Publishing

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• Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

  Thomas Paine

  Political, Honor, Politics

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.47, Rowman & Littlefield

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• That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got asthma." "Robitussin." "I got cancer." "Robitussin." "I broke my leg." Daddy poured Robitussin on it. "Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone."

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Cancer, Kids

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• I'm not saying that people shouldn't go out to football games and drink beer and have a good time, I do it myself. But, at the same time, people are so apathetic and that shows me that they don't care about themselves. They have no self-image. Their image is projected to them via the television and that is where they make decisions about who they are according to what the public says they ought to be.

  Alex Jones

  Football, Beer, Self

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Eight, Voice

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.

  Amory Lovins

  Giving, Environmental, Energy

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• I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

  Mickey Edwards

  People, Pockets, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Book, Holiday, Clothes

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.

  Mitch McConnell

  America, Entitlement, Demographics

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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